The Works of FS Ashley-Cooper
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The Works of F S Ashley-Cooper 1. F S Ashley-Cooper: Cricket Highways and 5. G Neville Weston: Bibliography of the Cricket Byways Works of the late F S Ashley-Cooper Allen & Unwin, 1927. A very For the author, 1933. good copy in a well pre- Original boards, a very served, scarce dust wrapper. good copy with the offi- Loosely inserted is one of cial stamp and acces- Ashley-Cooper’s letterhead sion number from the cards with the message Karl Auty Cricket Li- “With kindest regards and brary, Ontario. This is all good wishes, 1-xii-1927” copy no.94 of an edition in the author’s distinctive of 100, signed and hand. One of Ashley- numbered by Weston. Cooper’s most enduring and It also bears a signed readable books, including inscription from its chapters on “cricket as a original owner, A W Hobby” and “Books and Shelton, the Notts CCC Writers”. £120 President and noted collector. Weston pays 2. F S Ashley-Cooper: Somerset County Cricket a handsome tribute to Shelton’s assistance in com- G W May, 1924. Original piling this bibliography. Shelton also assisted in stiffened wrappers. A good the sale of Ashley-Cooper’s unrivalled collection to copy with the official stamp Sir Julien Cahn on his death. £395 and accession number from the Karl Auty Cricket Library, Ontario. Signed and dated 6. Richards’ Nottingham- 1924 by Ashley-Cooper on the shire Cricket Guide for front cover. A well-illustrated 1923. Edited by Incog history produced on heavy- (F S Ashley-Cooper) weight, high quality paper. Richards, 1923. Original One of a small county series wrappers, a fine copy with produced by Ashley-Cooper staples rusting slightly (as with this publisher. always). Ashley-Cooper £150 edited this annual from 1920 until 1931. £110 3. F S Ashley-Cooper: Kent Cricket Records 1719-1929 Kent Herald, 1929. Original stiffened wrappers, very good. £95 4. F S Ashley-Cooper: The Rev. John Mitford on Cricket. With a Biographical Note Richards, 1921. Original wrappers, very good. £95 7. F S Ashley-Cooper: The Australian Cricket Guide 1926. A Book of Records Richards, 1926. Original wrappers, very good. These delightful little books were produced in a short annual series by C H Richards in Notting- ham. The following issues are also available: - The New Zealand Cricket Guide 1927 - The West Indies cricket Guide 1928 - The South African Cricket Guide 1929 - The Australian Cricket Guide 1930 £95 ea 1 8. F S Ashley-Cooper: Nottinghamshire Cricket 12. A Haygarth: MCC Cricket and Cricketers Scores and Biographies Saxton, 1923. A fine copy in very good, scarce Volume XV. Edited by dust wrapper. A very full county history - 410pp of and F S Ashley-Cooper concentrated text and well illustrated. Includes a Longmans, 1925. Original bibliography of Nottinghamshire cricket. £85 cloth. There is some dis- coloration to the end- 9. P F Warner and F S Ashley-Cooper: Oxford v papers but o/w this is a Cambridge at the Wicket very good copy, clean and Allen & Unwin, 1926. A fine copy in original dust tight. Ashley-Cooper took wrapper, well preserved with slight nick from top of all Haygarth’s notes after spine. £45 his death and turned them into this (then) final volume of S&B. It contains just biographies rather than match scores and also serves as an index to the previous 14 volumes. It runs to 437pp and is in- valuable. £225 13. W A Bettesworth: Chats on the Cricket Field. With explanatory notes by F S Ashley-Cooper Merritt & Hatcher, 1910. Original cloth, a very good copy. This fine volume runs to 468pp and is an- other that is riddled with Ashley-Cooper’s informa- tive footnotes. Based on Bettesworth’s contempo- 10. Rev James Pycroft: The Cricket-Field. Edited rary interviews with all the with an Introduction by F S Ashley-Cooper great names of the time, St James’ Press, 1922. Original cloth, a fine copy. this is a unique source One of Ashley-Cooper’s book for later historians. £85 finest works. Not only does he contribute a 14. Cricket. A Weekly Record of the Game. Vol- perceptive Introduction ume XXVII (1908). Ed. by F S Ashley-Cooper and analytical appendi- Complete volume bound in cloth, good. By 1908 ces (Bibliography of the sales were falling off and these later volumes are editions, account of much scarcer. Part of the reason was Ashley- Pycroft’s life, etc) but virtually every page has detailed footnotes pur- suing some fascinating byway of cricket his- tory. A lifetime of cricket historical re- search distilled into one volume. £55 Cooper’s editorship - he filled the journal with ma- 11. F S Ashley-Cooper: W G Grace Cricketer. terial that is fascinating for today’s historians and A record of his per- collectors but did not boost sales. So we have formances in first- much on American cricket, ancient cricket history, class matches biobliography - even Early John Wisden, 1916. Cricket in Japan! Many Original wrappers, obituaries, some poetry - a with the official stamp real treasure trove. £185 and accession number from the Karl Auty 15. Lord Harris and F S Ash- Cricket Library, On- ley-Cooper: Kent Cricket tario. A loose copy Matches 1719-1880 with some fraying to Gibbs & Sons, 1929. Origi- edges of the wrappers nal cloth, good with faded but would rebind well. and marked covers (as of- £160 ten). £35 16. Lord Harris & F S Ashley-Cooper: Lords’s and 20. F S Ashley-Cooper: John the MCC. A cricket chronicle of 137 years, Wisden’s Cricket Match based on official documents and published with Histories III - Middlesex the knowledge and sanction of the Marylebone v Surrey 1730-1921 Cricket Club to commemorate the centenary of Wisden, 1922. Original their present ground stiffened wrappers, a very London & Counties good copy. Press Association, Volumes I and II also avail- 1914. Original quarter able £40 ea leather, top edge gilt. A good copy but with wear to the leather edges and some slight foxing to end papers 21. F S Ashley-Cooper: How to Play Clarke by N and one engraving. Felix. Edited, with an Introduction by F S Ash- Still a collectable copy ley-Cooper of an imposing volume, Richards, 1922. Original full of scarce illustra- wrappers which have tions and mainly rely- been rebacked and ing on Ashley-Cooper’s strengthened with card encyclopaedic knowl- by the former owner C I edge of the game. This is the First Edition, far S Wallace. End papers more attractive and desirable than the 1920 re- browned o/w contents print. £95 good. This copy bears the clear ink signature of 17. F S Ashley-Cooper: A Cricket Song by N Felix Charlie Wallace who was Richards, 1923. Original a noted cricket historian wrappers, very good. An- and collector. £95 other of Ashley-Cooper’s delightful little monographs produced by the Notting- ham printer C H Richards. 22. F S Ashley-Cooper: Derbyshire County Cricket This one reprints a poem by G W May, 1924. Original Felix from the original stiffened wrappers. A manuscript version in the good copy in original stiff- possession of A L Ford. To ened wrappers, spine this is added the author’s worn. A well-illustrated scrupulous commentary history produced on and footnotes. £95 heavyweight, high quality paper. One of a small county series produced by Ashley-Cooper with this publisher. £85 23. Ashley-Cooper, F.S.: Curiosities of First-class Cricket Searle, 1901. Rebound in grayish brown cloth, with original paper wraps preserved; some small nicks to covers, but generally a good copy. £115 18. F S Ashley-Cooper: Nottinghamshire Cricket Records Don’t forget to send us your e-mail Richards, 1928. Original wrappers, very good, address if you are not receiving our slight stain to corner of cover. Includes the erra- regular e-Alert listings. tum slip. £95 19. F S Ashley-Cooper: England v Australia. 100th Non-internet customers will con- Test Match Souvenir tinue to receive printed Catalogues Richards, 1921. Original wrappers, a fine copy. of course £95 3 Books - Early History 24. P F Thomas (H. P-T): Early Cricket. A descrip- 29. G B Buckley: Fresh Light on 18th Century tion of the first known match; and some com- Cricket. A collection of 1000 new cricket no- ments on Creag, Criquet, tices from 1697 to 1800 Cricce and Shakepeare’s clue Cotterell, 1935. Original C H Richards, 1923. Original cloth, a fine copy. Invalu- wrappers, very good. These able for anyone interested booklets revolutionised the way in the early history of the in which early cricket history game. Buckley was a doc- was viewed - luckily in time for tor from Weston-super- H S Altham’s major work pub- Mare who devoted much of lished in 1926. Thomas’ pseu- his life to uncovering de- donym was an abbreviation for tails of the game's develop- Hippo Pot-Thomas. £75 ment. His results were published in 2 volumes 25. P F Thomas (H. P-T): Cricket’s Cradle. The and these books are now pedigree, transformation and discovery of the very hard to acquire. £285 GAME Richards, 1923. Original wrappers, very good. 30. G B Buckley: Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian The first in the series. £75 Cricket. A collection of new cricket notices from 1709 to 1837 26. Altham, H S: A History of Cricket Cotterell, 1937. Original cloth, a fine copy. The Allen & Unwin, 1926. Original cloth, a good copy. second volume of Buckley’s researches £285 The first really authoritative history - which still stands up to- 31.