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Click here to subscribe‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’, bound volume XVI from 1897. Also ‘The Cricketer’ magazine, bound volumes II and VI from 1922 and 1925. Sold with cricket biographies 1950s onwards and scrapbook of the M.C.C. in the West Indies 1948 and a collection of The Cricket Society of South Africa newsletters 1980s and 1990s. Qty 15. G/VG
*All Eleven of England v Australians 1884. Original silk scorecard for the match played on the 3rd-5th July 1884 at the St. John’s Ground, Fartown, Huddersfield. The scorecard, printed onto the silk in black print, by George Richards of Nottingham. Odd minor faults otherwise in very good condition. Rare The Australians managed to draw the game. The Eleven of England scoring 453 runs in their only innings, Australia being bowled out for 175 in their first innings and finishing on 124-7 in their second and that off 110 overs of bowling. For England Scotton made 134, Attewell 84, Grimshaw 77, Hirst 71. Scott top scored for the Australians with 50 in the 2nd innings. Attewell took ten wickets in the match
*England v Australia 1981. Official scorecard for the ‘famous’ third Test match, England v Australia, Headingley 1981. Ian Botham and Bob Willis’s match. England followed on 227 runs behind and were soon 135-7 in their second innings. Botham and Dilley then put together a stand of 117. Botham finished up with 149no and Dilley 56. Australia needed 130 to win. Australia at 56-2 seemed favourites to win the game, however Willis with 8-43 won the game for England by 18 runs. Fully printed end of match details. Excellent condition
‘Even Steven!. One Win Each-Just a matter of Knots’. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1965/66. Impressive original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon newspaper artwork for The Age, Australian newspaper by artist Samuel Wells. The cartoon features Australia winning the 4th Test match at Adelaide by an innings and shows the English Lion and the Australian Kangaroo tying knots in their tails to mark each loss. Players featured include Barrington and Titmus of M.C.C. who tried to save the game and Australians Graham McKenzie 6-48 and Neil Hawke 5-54 who bowled M.C.C. out. To lower corner of the artwork, is a cartoon of Bob Simpson, top of the Australian averages ‘Time Bob was given some reward for his great service to Cricket’. The cartoon, signed by Wells, dated 4th February 1966, measures 21”x14”. Excellent image. G
Joseph Lee. ‘Yorkshire County Champions 1946’. Original large pen and ink, highlighted with colour, caricature/ cartoon artwork showing four boys playing cricket in the park, a further game of football is being played in the background. to centre front a boy wearing a cap with a white rose, Yorkshire scarf and holding a newspaper with banner headline ‘Yorkshire Again!’ is merrily whistling ‘On Ilkla Moor Baht’at’. The caption, to lower border reads ‘The Swankpot!. Just because e’s got an Auntie who lives in Bradford....’. Excellent image. Drawn on artists card and signed by artist Lee, to lower border. Dated to verso ‘29th August 1946’. The artwork, produced for the London Evening News, measures 10.5”x15” Some staining to, mainly, the right hand border of artwork otherwise in good condition Joseph Lee worked for Strand Magazine and Pall Mall Gazette before joining the Sunday Express. From 1934 to 1966 Lee worked for the London Evening News
West Ham, European Cup Winners’ Cup 1965. An official match programme for the final played at Wembley Stadium, 19th May 1965, vs TSV Munchen 1860, nicely signed to the front by Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. Slight age toning, small stain to rear and rusting staples otherwise good condition. Sold with a used match ticket for the game, Cup Winners pennant and Typhoo Tea West Ham colour team photograph. G/VG West Ham won the final 2-0
Tottenham Hotspur, U.E.F.A. Cup Final. Official match programme for the U.E.F.A. Cup Final, 1st leg vs Feyenoord played at White Hart Lane, 21st May 1974 and a used match ticket from the same game. VG The first leg was drawn 2-2 with Feyenoord winning the return fixture 2-0, 4-2 on aggregate
Manchester United, European Champions’ Cup Final, 1968. Official match programme for the final vs Benfica played at Wembley Stadium, 29th May 1968, sold with three mono copy photos, 10”x8” overall, featuring action images from the game. VG At full time the score was 1-1 with Manchester United winning 4-1 after extra time
Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur 1938/39. Official programme for the Football League Jubilee Trust Fund game between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur played on the 20th August 1938. Rusting and staining to staples, some age toning to covers, some worm damage to corner of back cover otherwise in generally good condition
Albert Craig. ‘First match between Surrey and Notts. At the Oval, July 17th and 18th, 1851. (1891). Broadsheet poem, the scorecard for the first Surrey v Nottinghamshire match is reproduced and is followed by a short poem by Craig.’Agin we expect a sharp, spirited game, A merry tough, stout-hearted fray....’ Presumably produced for the fortieth anniversary in 1891. The rear has an advertisement for F.H.Ayres. Light central crease, a little spotted and nicked to top border. Good. Rare
Gentlemen v Players 1926. Album page nicely signed in ink by the Players XI who played at Lord’s on the 14th-16th July 1926. Eleven signatures including Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Tyldesley, Holmes, Tate, Woolley, Hendren, Kilner etc. G The match was drawn in a high scoring game, each of the first three batsman for the Players XI scored centuries, Hobbs 163, Sutcliffe 107 and Tyldesley 131.
‘Annals of Cricket. A record of the game compiled from authentic sources and my own experiences during the last twenty three years’. W.W. Read. London 1896. De-luxe limited edition of 250 copies bound in quarter vellum over green boards with title in gilt to spine, hand-made pages. This copy is un-numbered and unsigned. The book signed and dated by ‘Viscount Corry, March 9th 1901’ to front end paper. Bookplate of Leonard Hutton to inside front board. With covering letter from Albert Beerman dated 25th June 1951. The book was a gift from Beerman to Hutton on the occasion of his 35th Birthday (23rd June 1951). Odd faults otherwise in good condition Viscount Corry is very likely Armar Lowry-Corry (1870-1948) who was styled Viscount Corry from 1870 until he became 5th Earl Belmore in 1913 Albert Leonard Beerman, the son of a 1880’s German immigrant and the proprietor of the butcher’s shop adjacent to Pudsey Town Hall. Beerman was a great admirer of Len Hutton and donated a number of books to his library
‘Australian Cricket. The Game and the Players’. Jack Pollard. Sydney 1982. De luxe leather bound limited edition of 452, signed by Don Bradman who wrote the foreward. Full green leather, gilt to top edge and slip cased. Presentation copy to Hutton, signed and dated by Hutton to front end paper ‘Len Hutton, Adelaide, December 1982’. Limited edition number 364/452, marking Hutton’s highest first class score and 452 was Bradman’s and Australia’s highest first class score. Only fifty copies of this edition were made available in the United Kingdom. Very good condition
‘The Cricket Bat and how to use it. A Treatise on the Game of Cricket. With Practical and Scientific Instructions on Batting, Bowling and Fielding...’. ‘An Old Cricketer’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. London 1863. Original pictorial boards. Odd minor faults, breaking to front internal hinge otherwise in good condition
Sussex C.C.C. Good collection of biographies, autobiographies, statistical etc. Includes ‘My Cricketing Reminiscences’. M. Tate 1934 (DW), George Cox Benefit Book 1951, Don Bates Benefit brochure 1968, Sussex C.C.C. Handbook 1975, ‘Lillywhite. The First Modern Bowler’. M. Wilson (signed), ‘Young Jim’. The Jim Parks Story’. D. Watts (signed), ‘Duleep. The Man and his Game’. Edited by Vijay Merchant, Vasant Raiji etc. Commemoration Volume. Bombay 1963. Original dustwrapper, ‘Background of Cricket’ Home Gordon. London 1939 etc. Other autobiographies on Imran Khan, Parks, Dexter, Mustaq, Tate, Duleepsinhji, Wells, Greig etc. Qty 38. G
Cricket books. Four boxes of large format and pictorial cricket and cricket related books, ephemera etc. Includes some unusual titles including ‘The Story of an African Game’. Andre Odendaal. Cape Town 2003, ‘Empire & Cricket. The South African Experience 1884-1914. Black Cricketers and the unmasking of one of cricket’s greatest myths, South Africa 1850-2003’. Edited by Bruce Murrey & Goolam Vahed 2009, ‘Your Days, My Days’. Sherree Valentine Daines. London 2011, ‘More than a Game’. History of the Western Province Cricket Board 1959-1991’. Mogamad Allie. Cape Town 2000, ‘Men in White’. History of New Zealand International Cricket’. Neely, King and Payne. Auckland 1986, ‘The History of the Mosman Cricket Club 1908-2008’. John Hiscox. Cherrybrook 2001, ‘The Summer Game’. Illustrated History of New Zealand Cricket’. D.O. & P.W. Neely. Auckland 1994, ‘50 Golden Years of West Indies Test Cricket’. Barbados 1978 etc
Glamorgan. Selection of five books/booklets, mainly biographical. Includes ‘Born to Bowl. The Life and Times of Don Shepherd’. D. Miller 2004, C.P. Lewis. The Champion Cricketer of South Wales’. Harragan and Hignell 2009, ‘Turnbull. A Welsh Sporting Hero’. A. Hignell 2001, ‘Jack Mercer. A Bowler of Magical Spells’. A. Hignell 2011 etc. Sold with five books on Welsh cricket including ‘The History of Llanelli Cricket Club’. B. Harragan, ‘looking Back. History of Abergavenny Cricket Club 1834-1984’, ‘A Favourite Game. Cricket in South Wales before 1914’ etc. Qty 10. Odd faults, good
American and Canadian cricket. Selection of sixteen various books and booklets including ‘The Log of the Old Un. From Liverpool to San Francisco 1886’. Facsimile edition issued by McKenzie 1994, ‘Dawn’s Early Light. Cricket in America before 1820’. Martin Wilson 2008, signed limited edition number 10 of 160 copies, numbers 11-160 were for sale, ‘North America in International Cricket’. Rowland Bowen 1960, ‘The Tented Field. A History of Cricket in America’. Tom Melville 1998, ‘A Yankee Looks at Cricker’. As told to Gerald Brodribb by Henry Satyen’. London 1956, ‘The Book of American Pastimes: containing A History of the principal Baseball, Cricket Rowing....’. Charles A. Peverelly 2010 (reprint of the original), ‘A History of Canadian Cricket. An Imigrant’s Game?’. Patrick Adams, first edition and revised edition, one signed by the author etc. G
‘The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket....’ London 1865. 21st Edition. 8vo. Compiled and Edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhite and Ward of London. Bound in card wrappers, lacking original wrappers. 154pp lacking adverts at rear. Staining and wear to some rear pages, ownership name handwritten to top of title page otherwise in good condition. Rare
‘Lord’s and the M.C.C.’. Lord Harris and F.S. Ashley Cooper. London 1920. Rebound edition, some foxing to first few pages otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The Game of Cricket’. Chapman, Fender, Franklin, Jardine.......’ Lonsdale Library. Vol VI. London 1930. Full buckram leather edition with gilt titles to front board and spine. Gilt to top edge. G
‘Death’s Doings; consisting of numerous original compositions, in prose and verse, the friendly contributions of various writers; principally intended as illustrations of thirty four plates, designed and etched by R.Dagley, author of ‘Select Gems from the Antique’ &c. First edition. J.Andrews and W.Cole 1826. 8vo. 369 pages. Contains ‘The Game of Life; or Death Among the Cricketers’, a poem by S.Maunder, with an etching ‘The Cricketer’ by R.D. and a prose piece ‘Death and the Cricketer’ by Barnard Batwell. Some foxing to odd pages, odd faults generally good condition
Signed cricket books. Eight signed cricket books, signed by their author. Books include ‘The Botham Report’. Ian Botham 1997, ‘The Barry Richard Story’. Barry Richards 1978 (plus signed letter), ‘The Heart of Cricket’. Tom Graveney 1983, ‘A Game Enjoyed’. Peter May 1985 (signature laid down), ‘Gower. The Autobiography’. David Gower 1985, ‘Summer of Speed’. Patrick Eagar 1983 etc. Sold with a two boxes of general cricket books including biographies etc and a further box containing brochures, programmes, signed mini cricket bat, ephemera etc. Good selection. Odd faults, G
Surrey. ‘Following On’. Alec and Eric Bedser. London 1954, signed to title page by both of the Bedser brothers, ‘A Game Enjoyed’. Peter May 1985, signed to title page by May and ‘Cricket’ Alf Gover, London 1949, signed to frontispiece in ink by Gover. The first two books with dustwrapper. Qty 3. G
Surrey. ‘A Game Enjoyed’. Peter May 1985, signed to title page by May and ‘P.G.H. Fender’. Richard Streeto. London 1981, signed to title page by Alec and Eric Bedser. Sold with eighteen books on Surrey cricket and cricketers includes ‘Cricket’ D. Jardine. London 1946 d/w, ‘Jack Hobbs. Gentleman and Player’. Pat Lansberg. London 1953, ‘My Cricket Memories’. J.B. Hobbs 1926 (plate detached), ‘My Life Story’. J.B. Hobbs. London 1935 etc (Odd book with laid down signature) plus Surrey Yearbooks 1972, 1979, 1980, 1982-1984, 1985-1993. Some faults, good
Quantity of assorted toys and board games, includes: quantity of playworn Chad Valley racing horses; Gotham Pressed Steel pinball game; Marx Toys Penalty Shot; Soccerette game; two Ariel Wembley games; Palitoy Ricochet Racers; Valentine and Sons jigsaw puzzle; Spear`s Electric Contact Quiz. Overall appears P-F.
Quantity of assorted toys, mainly sci-fi and TV/film related: six boxed Character Scooby-Doo Mystery Mates Glow in the Dark Mine Car Mayhem Stunt Set; quantity of loose toy vehicles, mostly Thunderbirds; quantity of carded `Turtles Fighters` action figures; boced KidWorks Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pinball game; 12 x unboxed Hasbro Action Man toys; boxed Hasbro Action Man James Bond toy. Conditions vary from P-E.
Quantity of modern Star Wars toys and games, includes: two Supercast Episode 1 Plaster Moulding Sets (Heroes and Villains); Wizards of the Coast Miniatures Revenge of the Sith Starter Game; Spin Master Mighty Beanz Death Star Collector Case; etc. Most items are boxed, overall appear VG-E. (15)
1959 FA Cup Final, Luton Town v Nottingham Forest, a collection of items, relating to the Final game, played on 02/05/1959. The match programme, community song sheet, and ticket from the game, together with a London Midland Travel flysheet, and the Forest Cup Story Players brochure, in addition to this are 33 newspapers, mainly full editions, from before and after the game, good coverage from the National papers, but many Nottingham issues, a nice lot.
FL Cup Final, Liverpool v Nottingham Forest, a programme of arrangements for the game played on 18/03/1978, in addition to this is a set of 1963 Football League Centenary cufflinks & tie pin in original box, plus a few sundry items including an FA booklet on how to arrange League fixtures, and a distressed copy of 1922/23, the AP Book of Football Records.
Johnny Haynes, Fulham, a collection of various items, a large programme, Testimonial Boxing Dinner to Johnny, held at the Connaught Rooms on 16/09/1968, signed on the back page, the 1958 & 1959 London 5-A-Side programmes. The `Its All In The Game Book`, with dedicated signature, no dust jacket, and `Football Today` book signed by him, torn dust jacket, plus various programmes.
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