Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 1016
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £50
Cricket biographies 1950s onwards. Box comprising a good selection of thirty original hardback biographies, the majority with good dustwrappers. Subjects/ authors include Bill Bowes, Roy Gilchrist, Eric Hollies, Keith Miller, Frank Worrell, Garry Sobers, Roy Marshall, Roy McLean, Norman O’Neill, Conrad Hunte, Bobby Simpson, Bill Lawry, Frank Tyson, Jack Cheetham, E.R.T. Holmes, Godfrey Evans etc. Sold with a selection of twenty six cricket histories etc., mainly hardbacks. All titles from the collection of Gordon Ross, the majority with his bookplate to inside. Qty 56 in two boxes. Good/ very good condition.
Gordon Ross was a sports journalist and author. He edited the Playfair Cricket Annual from 1954 until his death in 1985