Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 969
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £50
Signed biographies and histories 1960s onwards. Box comprising ten hardback titles with dustwrappers, each signed by the author (unless stated). Titles are ‘Spin Me A Spinner’, Richie Benaud 1963. ‘The Ashes 1972’, John Arlott 1972. ‘The Cricketing Family Edrich’, Ralph Barker 1976, signed by John Edrich. ‘A Spell from Laker’, Jim Laker 1979. Three signed by Geoffrey Boycott, ‘Opening Up’ 1980, ‘In the Fast Lane. West Indies Tour 1981’, and ‘Boycott. The Autobiography’ 1987. ‘Cricket’s Greatest Comeback, Warwickshire v Hampshire 1922’, Neil Jenkinson, Ewell 1998, limited edition no. 90/200, signed by the author and John Woodcock. ‘The Trent Bridge Battery. The Story of the Sporting Gunns’, B. Haynes & J. Lucas 1985, signatures of the two authors to labels laid down. ‘Firestarter’, Ben Stokes 2016. Sold with two benefit brochures, one for Ray Illingworth 1977 (signed by Illingworth) and the ‘Godfrey Evans 1953 Book of Cricket’. Also a further selection of general cricket books and magazines. Good condition.