Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 1028
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £60
‘The Fight for the Ashes in 1926’, P.F. Warner, London 1926. Original blue cloth, gilt title to spine and tooled Ashes urn decoration to front. This is a presentation copy from Warner with long dedication in ink to the half title page, ‘To A.P.F. Chapman, The Pith[?] of the cricket world, in appreciation of his splendid batting, fielding & captaincy, & with every good wish from his friend and admirer’, signed and dated ‘P.F. Warner Oct. 8 1926’. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Padwick 5046. Wear to front cover, some foxing to page edges, otherwise in good condition.
Arthur Carr captained England in the first four Tests of the 1926 Ashes series, which were all drawn. He was replaced by Percy Chapman as Captain for the final Test, which England won by 289 runs to take the series 1-0 and regain The Ashes.