Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 881
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £50
Limited edition and large format cricket books. Eight titles from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, earlier titles with his bookplate to the inside. ‘Lord’s and the M.C.C.’, Lord Harris and F.S. Ashley-Cooper, London 1914, bound in quarter leather and blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, gilt to top page edges. Bumping to corner and minor rubbing to spine, otherwise in good condition. ‘Memorable Cricket Matches’, Sir Geoffrey Tomkinson, Kidderminster 1958. Original green cloth. Limited edition no. 30/500, signed by Tomkinson. Slipped in is a selection of correspondence to the author and others. ‘Neville Cardus Reflects’, Bob Hilton, Manchester 2014, softback, limited edition no. 62/300. ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Vol. II nos. 22-49 (16th February to 27th December 1883), complete, bound in quarter leather, wear and loss to spine and boards, odd page detached etc. Some faults as described, otherwise in good condition.