Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 774
Estimate: £25/35
Signed cricket biographies. Three hardback titles. ‘With Bat & Ball’, George Giffen, London 1898. Very nicely signed in black ink to the half title page by R.M. Bell (Richard Moore Bell, London County, M.C.C. etc. 1902-1908), dated ‘March 1899, and also to the front endpaper by Bell. Original green cloth and bright gilt titles to front and spine. A nice copy. ‘Jerks in from Short-Leg’ by ‘Quid’ (R.A. Fitzgerald), London 1866. Original blue cloth with gilt caricature to front cover, title to spine and gilt to all page edges. Some wear to boards. Signed in ink to front inside cover ‘From Gerald J. Fitzgerald Xmas 1891’, son of the author. ‘M.C.C. The Autobiography of a Cricketer’, Colin Cowdrey, London 1976, signed by Cowdrey. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition.