Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Charterhouse Cricket June, 1942’. John Sammes. Published by the author , Reigate, Surrey 1952. Comprising a two page poem by Sammes who watched a Charterhouse School cricket match in 1942 at the height of the War. He returned in 1952 and wrote this poem after seeing in the Memorial Chapel the name of one of the players who appeared in the match of 1942. Tipped in is a long single page letter from Sammes to John Arlott, asking him to spread the word of the verses to a broader audience. The book is bound in green cloth with gilt title to spine for Arlott, with the bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover who bought the title from Arlott in 1979. Padwick 1385. Rare, this is the only known copy. Padwick 1385. Slipped in is a copy of another poem by ‘J.S. [Sammes]’ that appeared in the school magazine, ‘The Carthusian’ in 1942. Very good condition.