Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - Two day sale

Cricket advertisements 1900s-1970s. Two large folders comprising an excellent selection of fifty original advertisements featuring cricket taken f...

Cuttings scrapbook 1899-1902. A large scrapbook comprising a comprehensive collection of press cuttings, a good proportion of which relate to cric...

Alfred Percy 'Tich' Freeman. Kent & England 1914-1936. A collection of typed manuscripts with odd annotations in Freeman's own hand, comprising si...

'Sporting Sketches'. Copy of the magazine for 20th May 1896, Vol. V, number 113. Includes two full page reports with pictures, one of the Australi...

'Cricket Past and Present'. Cricket in England 1860s-1950s. A nicely compiled small red photograph album comprising real photograph postcards, can...

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1930. Official menu for the dinner given to the Yorkshire County Eleven at The Savage Club, London, 14th June 1930. The printed m...

Archdale Palmer Wickham. Oxford University & Somerset 1876-1907. One page handwritten letter on East Wrent Vicarage, Highbridge, Somerset headed p...

Arthur Edward Newton. Somerset 1891-1914. One page handwritten letter on Dipford House, Trull, Taunton headed paper from Newton to H.N.E. Alston (...

William Nicholas Roe. Cambridge University & Somerset, 1882-1899. Short one page handwritten letter on 'M.C.C. Lord's Cricket Ground' headed paper...

Leslie Gutteridge, publisher, Epworth Press. Single page typed letter from Gutteridge to Gerald Brodribb, dated 30th April 1956. Gutteridge is wri...

Arthur Haygarth, M.C.C. Sussex and Middlesex, 1844-1861. Original four page handwritten letter to an unknown correspondent, dated 28th April 1982,...

Geoffrey Boycott. Yorkshire & England 1962-1986. Card from Boycott, handwritten in ink and dated 24th February 2004, thanking the correspondent fo...

William 'Gentleman' Smith. Original early two page handwritten letter from Smith dated 19th June 1816. Smith is writing to an unknown corresponden...

Don Bradman. Australia. Original handwritten one page letter from Don Bradman to Jack Pollard regarding payment for an article for 'Six and Out' a...

George Gordon, 9th Marquis of Huntly & Earl of Aboyne. Original one page handwritten letter from Aboyne to 'Thergill (?)' regarding the embodiment...

Len Braund. Surrey, Somerset & England 1896-1920. One page handwritten letter to J.D. Coldham reporting on his health, awaiting a second artificia...

Wombwell Cricket Lovers' Society 1950s/1960s. Selection of approximately thirty typed and handwritten letters, the majority written to Jack Sokell...

Anthony Robert 'Tony' Lewis, Glamorgan & England 1955-1974. A small selection of correspondence to Lewis relating to him retiring from first class...

Tom Graveney and Raman Subba Row. Original single page typed letter dated 8th August 1958 nicely signed in ink by Subba Row, and a single page han...

H.V. Dorey. Editor of 'Cricket Who's Who'. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Dorey to the Editor of 'Cricket' magazine. The letter, writt...

Frederick Gale ('The Old Buffer'). Handwritten ten page letter in ink dated 28th January 1893, to Mr [R.S.] Holmes, author and collector. Writing ...

A.J. Gaston. Four page handwritten letter in ink from Gaston dated 26th April [18]94 from his home in Brighton. Gaston is writing to E.B.V. Christ...

Edgar Grace, grandson of W.G. Grace. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Edgar Grace dated 16th April 1953. Writing to G.N. Weston from the...

W.G. Grace. An interesting two page handwritten letter in ink from Grace to an unknown correspondent, on Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton, letterhead....

George Rostrevor Hamilton, poet and critic. Two page handwritten letter in ink dated 13th February 1944 from Hamilton to John Arlott, co-authors o...

W.T. Hodder, book collector. Two handwritten letters from Hodder to E.B.V. Christian relating to the sale of books from Hodder's collection. In th...

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home (Lord Home of the Hirsel). Middlesex & Oxford University 1924-1926. Single page typed letter on House of Lords le...

Andrew Lang. Scottish poet and writer. A twelve line poem written in ink in Lang's own hand on one page. The subject is the month of May and the p...

E.V. Lucas. Cricket essayist and writer. Two essays on the subject of Lord Charles J.F. Russell and his book, 'Recollections of Cricket', one comp...

G.D. Martineau. Cricket writer. Four page handwritten letter in ink dated 13th October 1952 from Martineau to Gerald Brodribb. Martineau is 'glad ...

Charles Henry Palmer. Worcestershire, Leicestershire & England 1938-1959. Two page handwritten letter from Palmer to John Arlott, dated '30th Oct'...

Signed menus, bookplate photographs, postcards, programmes etc. Green folder comprising a diverse selection of signed ephemera. Over eighty signat...

Reginald Henshall Brindley Bettington. Oxford University, Middlesex & New South Wales 1920-1938. Single page handwritten letter in ink on New Univ...

Cecil Geoffrey Howard. Middlesex 1930. Single page handwritten letter in ink written on the reverse of a printed autograph sheet for the 1954/55 M...

Hugh James Wyld. Oxford University, Middlesex & M.C.C. 1900-1905. Single page handwritten letter dated 11th October 1954 from Wyld replying with s...

William Findlay and Rowan Rait Kerr, Secretaries of M.C.C. Signature in ink of Findlay on piece and an original mono press photograph of Findlay s...

M.C.C. Presidents 1869-1923. A selection of autographed ephemera relating to six Presidents of the M.C.C., Viscount Lansdowne 1869, Viscount Lewis...

Morris 'Maurice' Leyland. Yorkshire & England 1920-1947. Single page handwritten letter written in later years in which Leyland declines an invita...

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England. 'Leonard Braund & Phillip Mead Fund'. Printed receipt for donation of 2/6 to the fund. Handwritten inscrip...

Jack Hobbs. A large scrapbook album compiled by Richard Arthur Burton, a keen follower of Hobbs. Contents include items relating to the sale of Ho...

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Scrapbook covering Sutcliffe's early career in the seasons 1919, the year he made his first-clas...

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. An interesting collection of letters to and from a James Savage in the early 1960s. The majority...

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. A personal scrapbook of Sutcliffe's relating to his retirement dinner held at the Queen's Hotel,...

Christopher Martin-Jenkins. Cricket writer and broadcaster. A folder comprising an interesting and comprehensive collection of correspondence, typ...

Percy Holmes. Yorkshire & England 1913-1933. Blue folder comprising a good selection of original press photographs, cuttings, cigarette cards, let...

John Arlott ephemera. A selection of photographs, letters, menus and an order of service relating to Arlott. Photographs include a plain back phot...

John Arlott. Original copy of a six page contract issued by the publishers, Collins, dated 31st July 1988, for the book 'More Arlott on Cricket' b...

John Arlott scrapbooks 1949-1984. Four scrapbook albums compiled by Arlott, comprising a comprehensive selection of press cuttings of articles, ma...

'A Bibliography of Cricket'. E.W. Padwick. London 1977. First Edition with dustwrapper. Only 750 copies were printed. Signed in ink to the front e...

'A History of Cricket'. H.S. Altham. First edition, London 1926. Original green cloth, gilt title to spine. Nicely signed in ink to front endpaper...

David Frith. Two titles by Frith. 'My Dear Victorious Stod. A Biography of A.E. Stoddart', New Maldon 1970. Limited edition no. 4/400. Signed ink ...

'A History of the Derbyshire County Cricket Club'. Walter J. Piper. First edition, Derby 1897. Original maroon quarter leather, gilt to spine. Sig...

'The Memorial Biography of Dr W.G. Grace'. Lord Hawke, Harris and Home Gordon. London 1919. First edition. Original decorative covers. Ex John Arl...

'The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1876-77 to 1977-78'. Bill Frindall. London 1979. Leather bound de luxe presentation edition with gilt lettering, ...

'Man at Play. Nine Centuries of Pleasure Making', John Armitage, London 1977. Sold with two non cricket titles, 'Wellington', Richard Aldington, L...

Signed cricket books. Three original hardbacks with good dustwrappers, each title signed by the author. 'No Ashes for England. The story of the Au...

Cricket histories and biography. Six titles including 'Worcestershire County Cricket Club. A Pictorial History', M.D. Vockins, London 1980. Includ...

Signed first editions. Seven first edition hardbacks, each signed by the author, some with dedication to John Arlott. 'Bat, Ball, Wicket and All',...

The Playfair Cricket Annual 1948-1990. Near complete run of the Annual, the copies for 1948 (first year of issue) to 1962, large issue. The majori...

Western Canada Cricket Association Tournament 1926. Official menu for the banquet held at the MacDonald Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta, 4th August 1926,...