Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

W.G. Grace. Five titles by or about Grace, hardbacks unless stated. ‘The Memorial Biography of Dr W. G. Grace’, Lord Hawke, Lord Harris and Sir Home Gordon, London 1919. Original decorative cloth boards. Signature of [Lord] Hawke in ink on piece laid down to title page. Large bookplate of H.A.L. Cohen to inside front cover. Padwick 7586. Minor soiling to boards and rubbing to board edges, otherwise good. ‘W.G. Grace 1848-1915. To mark the Fiftieth Anniversary of his death 23 October 1965’, Rev. A.N.B. Sugden, 4pp booklet in paper wrappers, reprinted in 1967 from the original of 1965. Padwick 7601. ‘Dr. W.G. Grace, the King of Cricket’, F.G. Warne, Burleigh’s Penny Biographies Bristol 1899. Rebound in green cloth, original wrappers retained. Ex John Arlott and A.E. Winder collections. Padwick 7606. ‘W.G. Grace Colonial Responses 1873-74, 1891-92’, Bernard Whimpress, South Australia 2013, limited edition softback no. 9/159 signed by the author. ‘Cricket’, William L. Murdoch, ‘Oval Series of Games’, ‘another edition’ London 1902. Original red cloth with illustrations of Grace to front cover, frontispiece etc. Padwick 458. Ex J.W. Goldman library. Some fading to spine. Odd minor faults as described, otherwise in good condition.