Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 766
Estimate: £30/50
Cricket biographies and histories. Box comprising a selection of biographies and histories, the majority hardbacks with dustwrappers. Includes two signed titles, ‘Peter May’, Alan Hill 1996, signed by Hill. ‘How to Become a First-Class Batsman’, Herbert Sutcliffe 1949, signature in pencil of Sutcliffe on piece laid down to frontispiece. Also three facsimile editions of ‘Frederick Lillywhite’s Scores and Biographies’ Vols. I-III published by Roger Heavens, Cambridge 1996-1998, each limited to 500 copies, nos. 260, 495 and 202 respectively. Other subjects covered include Yorkshire, Somerset, equipment manufacture, John Arlott, Hedley Verity etc. with authors including Neville Cardus, Fred Root, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, Norman Birkett, Denzil Batchelor, Eric Parker, Peter Roebuck etc. Qty 20. Minor faults to the odd title, otherwise in good condition.