Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Early cricket histories and biographies 1866-1922. Five hardback titles from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, the majority with his bookplate to the inside front cover. Titles are ‘Jerks in from Short-Leg’ by Quid (R.A. Fitzgerald), London 1866. ‘Wickets in the West or The Twelve in America’, R.A. Fitzgerald, London 1873. ‘Kings of Cricket’, Richard Daft, Bristol 1893. ‘Seventy-One Not Out. The Reminiscences of William Caffyn’, edited by “Mid-On” (R.P. Daft), Edinburgh 1899. ‘With the 15th Australian XI’, Sydney Smith Jr., Sydney 1922. Odd faults, generally good condition.