Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Cricket tours, histories and biographies 1890s onwards. Three boxes comprising over eighty titles including some early first edition hardback biographies and histories, some signed, plus later yearbooks, annuals etc. Includes three titles signed by Garry Sobers, ‘Sir Gary[sic]’, Trevor Bailey, London 1976. ‘Sobers. The Changing Face of Cricket’, Garfield Sobers, London 1996. ‘Six of the Best. Cricket’s most famous over’, Grahame Lloyd, Cardiff 2008, signed by Sobers and Lloyd. Others signed by the author include ‘Elusive Victory with F.R. Brown’s M.C.C. Team 1950-51’, E.W. Swanton, London 1951. ‘May’s Men in Australia’, Alec Bedser, London 1959. ‘Spinner’s Wicket’, Ray Illingworth, London 1969. ‘Gordon Garlick’, Gerry Wolstenholme, Red Rose Books 2004, signed limited softback edition no. 85/120. Other early histories include ‘Rugby School Cricket Scores 1831-1893’, A.G. Guillemard, Rugby 1894. ‘The Complete Cricketer’, Albert E. Knight, 2nd edition, London 1911. ‘A History of Leicestershire Cricket’, E.E. Snow, Leicester 1949. ‘Northamptonshire Cricket’, J.D. Coldham, London 1959. Other subjects/ authors include W.G. Grace, Jack Cheetham, Wilfred Rhodes, Denis Compton, Jack Fingleton, John Arlott, John Marshall, Plum Warner, The Ashes, Bodyline etc. Faults to some dustwrappers, otherwise in good condition.