Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026

Lot 1741
Estimate: £30/50
‘Cricket Country’. Edmund Blunden. First edition London 1944. Original hardback in original cloth, lacking dustwrapper. Ownership name of ‘E.S. Jones’ to front endpaper with small handwritten note lightly laid down, dated 16th June 1944, in which Blunden thanks Jones for ‘pointing out my mistake in giving Tate as the bowler when Bradman made 254 & was so well caught by Chapman’, nicely signed ‘E. Blunden’. Padwick 6657. Sold with a modern hardback biography with good dustwrapper of Blunden by Barry Webb, published in 1990. Good condition. Qty 2.

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