Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 963
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £38
Signed cricket books. A selection of thirteen signed hardback titles (one softback) from the collection of Gordon Ross, six with his bookplate. Good dustwrappers. Titles and signatures are ‘Wickets, Tries and Goals’, John Arlott, Wilfred Wooller & Maurice Edelston 1949, signed to the bookplate by Arlott. Two titles by Ian Peebles, ‘Talking of Cricket’ 1953 and ‘Spinner’s Yarn’ 1977. ‘Richie Benaud’s Way of Cricket’ 1961. Two by Trevor Bailey, ‘Sir Gary’ 1976 and ‘The Greatest Since My Time’ 1989. ‘A Friend of the Family’, Nico Craven 1980. One limited edition softback, ‘Two Tours and Pollock’, Chris Harte, Adelaide 1988, no. 785/1000. Others signed by Ian Botham, Jonathan Agnew, David Frith, Basil Ashton Tinker, and Andrew Searle. Good/ very good condition.