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

Cricket histories and biographies 1866-1939. Fourteen first edition hardback titles (one exception) from the collection of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, all with his bookplate to the inside. Titles are ‘Jerks in from Short-Leg’ by Quid (R.A. Fitzgerald), London 1866. ‘Cricket’, W.G. Grace, Bristol 1891. ‘The Hon. F.S. Jackson’, Percy Cross Standing, London 1906. ‘The Hambledon Men’, E.V. Lucas, London 1907. ‘Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket’, R.G. Barlow, second edition, Manchester 1908. ‘Chats on the Cricket Field’, W.A. Bettesworth, London 1910. ‘Twenty-Four Years of Cricket’, A.A. Lilley, London 1912. ‘Cricket (Batsmanship)’, C.B. Fry, London 1912. ‘The Memorial Biography of W.G. Grace’, Hawke, Harris & Gordon, London 1919. ‘Cricket Old and New’, A.C. Maclaren, London 1924. ‘Cricketing Memories’, Frank R. Foster, London 1930. ‘In Quest of the Ashes’, D.R. Jardine, London 1933. ‘A Cricketer’s Lot’, Fred Root, London 1937, dustwrapper. ‘Life Worth Living’, C.B. Fry, London 1939. Odd faults, overall in good condition.