Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 1014
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £50
Cricket histories 1900-2000. A good selection of fourteen assorted hardback cricket books. Pre-war titles include ‘Bat v Ball. The Book of Individual Cricket Records, &c. 1864-1900’. J.H. Lester. Nottingham 1900. Bound in maroon cloth, original pictorial wrappers preserved. ‘Cricket’, G.E. Jessop, London 1903. ‘Cricket’, H.G. Hutchinson, London 1903. ‘Great Batsmen. Their Methods at a Glance’, Beldam & Fry, London 1905. ‘The Complete Cricketer’, A.E. Knight, London 1906. ‘The Problems of Cricket’, Major Philip Trevor, London 1907. ‘A History of Cricket’, H.S. Altham, London 1926. ‘The History of Cricket’, Eric Parker, London 1950 etc. Also includes two facsimile reprints published by J.W. McKenzie, ‘Curiosities of Cricket’ by An Old Cricketer 1897’, 1989, and ‘The Log of the “Old Un” from Liverpool to San Francisco 1886’ 1994. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition.