Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 780
Estimate: £50/70
Cricket histories. ‘Wickets in the West; or, The Twelve in America’. R.A. Fitzgerald. London 1873. The account of the M.C.C. tour to North America in 1872 led by Fitzgerald’. Publisher’s original maroon cloth with gilt illustration of W.G. Grace and signature in gilt to front, gilt title to spine. Ex libris. Padwick 4895. Wear and bumping to corners. ‘Lord’s and the M.C.C.’, Lord Harris and F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1914, original blue cloth and leather spine, some wear to spine. ‘Leaves from an Old Country Cricketer’s Diary’, W.L.W. Collins, Edinburgh 1908, original blue cloth. Sold with seven booklets in original paper wrappers including Numbers 1 to 4 (First Series) August- November 1946, and ‘Pamphlet No. 1 English Cricket Form 1948’ compiled and signed by Charles M. Oliver, all published by the Cricket Book Society, Hunstanton. ‘Gloucestershire Cricket and Cricketers 1919-1939’, Rex Pogson 1944, signed by Pogson. ‘Bradman 1927-1941’ compiled by E.L. Roberts, Birmingham 1944. Odd faults, generally good condition. Qty 10.