Vintage Books
The Dishevelled Gentleman
Vintage Books
The Dishevelled Gentleman Vintage Books
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This catalogue was updated on the 18th of January 2014
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The benefits of buying second hand books:
1. Fiscal: You typically pay less than half what you’d pay retail
2. Emotional: Collecting is fun, finding that rare, hard to find, out of print book (like a signed 1st edition Ray Robinson, for example) is an amazing feeling.
3. Environmental: the original recycling, no additional trees or water is used if you buy an old book in preference to a new one.
4. Emotional II: The feel and smell of a book is so much better than that of a kindle.
5. Practical: It can never run out of batteries.
Many thanks and regards, Dusty Cricket: Classics: Batting From Memory: Jack Fingleton
Jack Fingleton is my favourite writer on the game. Fingo knew everyone, he batted for an entire day with Bradman in a test match, yet they had a relationship that can only be described as . . . complex. He was press secretary to “The Little Digger” Billy Hughes, confidant of Sir Bob Menzies, writer on politics, the man who brought Larwood to settle in Sydney, a good friend of Sir Neville Cardus; he had a rich life. His autobiography is like a fine bottle of red wine, smooth and warming. The more you imbibe the better you feel.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket, pages are clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Beyond A Boundary: C. L. R. James
C. L. R. was one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th Century and devoted to the game. He describes this remarkable book as “neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography. It poses the question What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” It explores the game in the West Indies, it’s place in the Islands psyche, history, politics and social fabric. It also explores the game itself, it’s history, it’s character and artistry. After reading it you gain a completely new perspective of what cricket is. It is quite simply one of the best books I have ever read.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very good, cover unmarked, pages clean and bright. Edition: 2005 reprint.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Between Wickets: Ray Robinson
Robinson’s great book on cricket and cricketers between the wars has developed a reputation as one of the greatest works in the cannon. He analyses Bradman and the effects on his batsmanship of bodyline, he delves into that series itself and he offers us insight into the character and greatness of the likes of O’Reilly, McCabe, Larwood, Sutcliffe & Jardine. He does all this while examining the events which shaped their era and squarely placing them in their context within the history of the game.
Sir Neville Cardus said of this book “It would be no great praise to describe this book as the best on cricket written by an Australian so far. He sees right through the master so clearly that we might at once call him X-Ray Robinson.”
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very good, no dust jacket, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very good, dust jacket worn with some tears but covered, pages Yellowing. Edition: 4th (Pictured).
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Autobiography: Neville Cardus
Neville Cardus is the greatest writer on cricket who has lived. His Autobiography will enrich your life. When I read it I would sit on my balcony at home and watch the world go by. After every page the world I looked on was better that it had been before.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Fair, dust jacket gone, pages clean and bright. Edition: 2nd.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Thrown Out: Ian Meckiff as told to Ian McDonald
This is a book in two parts. Ian’s career was short and bitter, accused of being a chucker, he was no balled out of the game. He was understandably upset by this and he pours out much of his frustration into this book. The second part is one of the best portrayals of the events of the 1961 West Indian tour of Australia I’ve ever read. Starting with the closing moments of the first test in Brisbane, the infamous tied test, Ian takes us through the second last ball of the game, straining for the crease, head down, limbs outstretched, it was he who was run out with the scores level, it was a moment of destiny in an amazing series. Very good book.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket is ragged at the top but I’ve covered it so it won’t deteriorate any further, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
A Century of Cricketers: A.G. “Johnny” Moyes
Johnny Moyes was a first class cricketer of the early century and nearly played test cricket. He became a NSW selector and brought Bradman down from the bush. He worked as a journalist as well and wrote extensively on the game. His biography of Bradman is much sought after but I think this is his best book. In it he gives us glimpses of 100 of the great cricketers from the beginning of test cricket up to 1950. A lovely and enlightening read.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good, dust jacket has a couple of small tears at the top but is otherwise good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
A Century of Ashes: Compilation
Published in 1982 A Century of Ashes is the definitive collection of writings on the first century of the greatest sporting rivalry in history. With contributions from the greatest writers on & players of the game including Cardus, Grace, Fingleton, Fry, Ranji, Robinson, Hutton, Bradman, O’Reilly, Miller, Lawry, Benaud & Brearley, to name but a few, this is a wonderful tome to pull out on a dreary Winters night and delve into with a glass of Scotch.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, no marks, minimal creasing, pages yellowing a little. Edition: 1st in paperback.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Farewell to Cricket: Don Bradman
This paperback edition is the 1994 reissue of the Don’s 1950 cricketing Auto biography. When the Don drew the curtain on his illustrious career he took that meticulous nature of his and channeled it into the creation of this book. He tells of his development as a cricketer, of his approach to the game, gives his opinions on all the issues of the times and his side of many of the controversies that plagued his time in the game (up to that point). He also tells of the personal triumphs and travails of his life outside the arena. He writes in a voice so strong you can hear that thin, high pitched drawl of his in every written word. This book is the corner stone of the cricket literature collection of any Australian aficionado.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, no marks, minimal creasing, pages clear and bright.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
On Top Down Under: Ray Robinson
One of the great books in the cannon of Australian cricket literature from one of the great writers on the game, Ray Robinson. Ray was a journalist who was known for religiously watching every ball of test matches. His Magnum Opus, On Top Down Under, tells the stories, lives, hopes and dreams of Australia’s Cricket Captains, from handsome Dave Gregory to the tortured and maligned Kim Hughes, with wit, humour and no small amount of insight.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, cover unblemished, pages clean and bright. Edition: 2nd.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
The Paddock That Grew: Keith Dunstan
Keith Dunstan’s celebrated history of the MCG and MCC provides not just the definitive story of the development of the ground and the august institution, but also of the city in which they grew. Did you know they used to fight duels on Market Street in the mid nineteenth century? You would if you’d read this book. This 1974 edition is of larger size than I’ve seen before being 12’ x 9’ rather than the usual 9’ x 6’ and seems to contain more pictures from the MCC collection than other editions.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, no dust jacket, pages clean and bright. Edition: 2nd.
Price: $25 + p&h Order
A Life-Long Innings, The Jack Ryder Story: Marc Fiddian
Jack Ryder was the pride of Collingwood and a great Victorian in the mode of Bill Lawry. A hard hitting batsman and canny medium pace bowler, he captained Australia in 1928-29 during Bradman’s first series. In many ways Ryder, despite his great achievements is a forgotten cricketer (though not in Collingwood), Marc Fiddian is to be admired for bringing his story to light.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Cricket is My Life: Len Hutton
Sir Len was one of England’s greatest batsmen. Born in Pudsey he showed early promise, a classical, easy style, coupled with a somewhat cautious Yorkshire nature. He broke Bradman’s Ashes record score during the 1938 Oval marathon where England ran up 900 runs; had a horrible war, sustaining injuries that left one arm inches shorter than the other, yet overcame this to come back after the war to become England’s first ever professional captain.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good, no dust jacket, Edition:,4th reprint.
Price: $17.50 + p&h Order
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good, no dust jacket, Slight lean in spine Edition:,7th reprint.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Just My Story: Len Hutton
Just My Story was written shortly after his retirement and covers the period of his captaincy. As the first professional to be appointed to the England captaincy Len was under more pressure than his amateur predecessors. Though Lord Hawke had been dead for many years, no one had forgotten his pronouncement “Pray God, no professional shall ever captain England!”. In this book Len is very candid about many aspects of later career including the dropping of his great friend and colleague Alec Bedser. He might have mentioned more of controversies that dogged the MCC tour of West Indies but on the whole he seems very much unburdened. His writing style is more mature and authoritative than his first autobiography and is a fascinating and enjoyable read.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good, no dust jacket, some foxing. Edition:,1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
The Golden Age of Australian Cricket: George Giffen ed. Ken Piesse
This is the re-release of George Giffen’s “With Bat and Ball”. George was Australia’s W.G. Grace. The South Australian, born in 1859, was prolific with bat and ball and captained his state and his country. This book is a seminal work in the history of Australian cricket, one of the first books on cricket written in this country and it contains the memories and historical insights from one of our early greats.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1982 re-release.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
The Urn Returns: Arthur (A. E. R.) Gilligan
One for the very serious collector. A. E. R. was a former England captain. This is his book of the ’54-55 Ashes. What makes this special is the printing defects, 4 or 5 sets of facing pages from the mid 20’s on are blank. Does that make it worth more?
Style: Hardback, Condition: Strange, no dust jacket, pages clean and bright (especially those that are blank). Edition:1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Vanity Fair: William Makepeace Thackeray
What is this book doing in the cricket section? This book inspired C.L.R James who would read it regularly. If one of the great writers on the game was inspired by it maybe there’s something to it.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Good, pages clean and bright, a little wear on the cover and creasing on the spine. Price: $10 + p&h Order
The last golden age: Out of My Comfort Zone: Steve Waugh
I think as soon as he walked off the SCG after his final test against India, Steve went straight home, locked himself in a room for 18 months and poured forth absolutely every recollection he could muster on his life thus far into this 700+ page tome. It must set a record for the largest player autobiography ever written. Which means it contains a lot of detail on the 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th?) Golden Age of Australian cricket. He’s not Neville Cardus so, not unlike many of his innings, it’s tough going, but certainly very rewarding.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket shows some wear but if fully polyethylene covered, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
True Colours, My Life: Adam Gilchrist
Adam’s autobiography is an emotional journey and paints an interesting portrait of his career. Unlike some biographies you don’t just get the picture of what was happening at the various stages of his career, but also how he felt about it (he’s very in touch with his feelings). His sensitivity and insecurities would even surface during those halcyon days when he was dominating every attack. An enjoyable read this one.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Pristine, never been read, dust jacket immaculate, pages clear and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Standing My Ground: by Matthew Hayden
The Autobiography of the most destructive opening batsman of his generation, Standing My Ground is not the worst post career autobiography from a member of Australia’s great XI’s of the early 21st century. It reveals much about how he went about his work and sheds some light on what it was like to walk in his mighty spikes. Quite an enjoyable read and a must for the collection of any serious cricket follower.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Pristine, dust jacket immaculate, pages clear and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Shane Warne, My Autobiography: Shane Warne with Richard Hobson.
Written in 2001 with the help of Richard Hobson Warnie gives us an insight into the first couple of phases of his career and his development as a cricketer. Reading between the lines of the point of view of one of the greatest cricketers and characters the game (already rich in characters) has known, is as insightful and enjoyable as reading his lines at face value.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket perfect, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Spun Out, The Shane Warne Story: Paul Barry
This is the controversial and unauthorized biography of Shane Warne by the former 60 Minutes reporter. Warne shunned him but Barry talked to friends, relations and sympathizers of the great man and filled the gaps with very entertaining conjecture. The passage on how he arrives at the approximate number of women he estimates Warne to have slept with is very revealing, not to mention absurdly funny.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket perfect and fully covered, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Walking to Victory: Adam Gilchrist
Remember the World Cup semi final where Adam Gilchrist walked? And that summer when they were going to drop Steve Waugh and he made that ton? Would you like to get the inside story form a bloke who was there? Who wouldn’t!
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Dizzy: Jason Gillespie as told to Lawrie Colliver
Together with Glen McGrath, Jason “Dizzy” Gillespie formed one of Australia’s great opening bowling partnerships. He was great to watch, zipping the ball through at a fair clip with just a hint of wobble, almost imperceptible, like the faint wobble of starlight. Batsmen would hang their bats in the line of the ball only to have the ball pass the outside edge without seeming to have moved from its line. He passed the edge so often it sometimes seemed like a batsman would need a degree in quantum mechanics just in order to nick it. His batting was also great to watch. He developed from a proper tail-ender into dour blocker capable of frustrating even Indian spinners on raging turners, thence into a swashbuckling lower order all-rounder, capable of anything. And so it proved in Bangladesh where he hit up a dashing double century.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, Cover good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Worth the Wait: Darren Lehmann
New Australian coach Darren Lehmann was a talent long overlooked. Unlike many of the great state batsmen of the Waugh Golden Age, however, Jamie Siddens, Stuart Law and others of that ilk, Darren was able to play his part and share in the glory. He has a tremendous cricket brain, it has served him well on the field, though often not off it. His career was brief but he packed in enough controversy to fill the shoes of a 15 year veteran (well, nearly anyway, I exaggerate only slightly). He was picked as Aussie 12th man at 19, it was 8 more years before he made his debut.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Steve Waugh Diaries: Steve Waugh
The great thing about these is that they offer a real behind the scenes look into the doings of the Aussie test team during one of it’s true golden ages and that Steve is a veritable shutterbug. In stock I have:
West Indies Tour Diary: The inside story of the historic 1995 Frank Worrell Trophy victory. Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, no marks, minimal creasing, pages clear and bright.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order
Never Satisfied: The Zenith of Waugh’s captaincy, this covers the period during which we won 16 in a row. Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, no marks, pages clear and bright.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order
Images of Waugh: A compilation of Waugh’s favorite photos, Style: Paperback, Condition: Poor, much creasing and dog-earing.
Price: $2.50 + p&h Order
World Cup Diary: The triumph and heartbreak, the character and colour of the 1996 World Cup on the Sub Continent. Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, no marks, minimal creasing, pages clear and bright.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order
Ashes Diary 2001: From Gallipoli to an Ashes century on one leg. Ah the memories. Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, no marks or creasing, pages clear and bright.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order
1997 Ashes Diary: Another year another Ashes victory. The thing that sets this series apart was we actually lost a test while the ashes were still up for grabs. Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, no marks or creasing, pages clear and bright.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order Captains Diary 2002: The Aussie team was the best in the world, they won the prestigious Laureus sports award; so why did Tugga lose the one day captaincy? Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, no marks or creasing, pages clear and bright.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order
South African Tour Diary: The first tour of South Africa since their reintegration was also Alan Borders last series as captain. Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, no marks or creasing, pages clear and bright.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order
Under the Southern Cross: David Boon
Boony was one of the greatest Aussie players to come out the mid 80’s. He played a big part in the rejuvenation of our national team, adding solidity and an amazing capacity for beer to our fragile middle order. You hardly ever hear him talk, and when he does he doesn’t say much, he rarely smiles yet for all that he was one of the great characters of the game. I’m not sure how that works . . . maybe it’s the moustache? In his autobiography you get to know what went on underneath the bristles.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket good, fully polyethylene covered, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Captain’s Diary 2009: Ricky Ponting
This is the inside story of a tumultuous year for the Aussie cricket team. Losses in India are not that uncommon, but to lose a test series at home and a test match at Lords? These were unheard of things and a sign of a team in decline. Not that it was all doom and gloom, there was the series win in South Africa and when all was said and done we did win six tests; which is only one fewer than we lost, it’s just that they weren’t the tests that counted.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Reiffel, Inside and Out: Paul Reiffel with Greg Baum
Paul was the work horse of Aussie teams of the 90’s, bowling up hill and into the wind (I know how he feels) he was much underrated as a bowler I think. He always hit the deck hard, bowled great line and length and often got just enough movement off the deck to trouble the batsman. This is his story.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
In It to Win It: Peter Roebuck
Peter Roebuck was one of the games foremost writers of the 21st century. In this book Roebuck charts the course of the rise and dominance of Australian cricket from the 1987 World Cup to the 2005 Ashes, examining the reasons and mindset that set apart the great teams of this new golden age.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Nugget, Man of the Century: Ashley Mallett
Nugget Rees is one of the more remarkable characters in Australian cricket. A fixture at the Adelaide Oval he is a talisman for Aussie and SA cricketers and one of nature’s true gentlemen.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
The Dominators: Allan Border, Justin Langer, Shane Warne, Steve Waugh
Perspectives on the greatest Australian team ever!!!? From the men who lived it. Follow the story of the resurgence, rise and dominance of our team of the late 1990’s.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, cover good, pages clean and bright.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order
Mark Taylor, Time to Declare: Mark Taylor
One of Australia’s great test captains, Mark Taylor was astute, positive and made the very good team left to him by Allan Border a great team. He gave them belief that they could be the best, which is what they became.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Good, pages clean and bright, a little wear on the cover and creasing on the spine.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Boon, in the Firing Line: David Boon & A. Mark Thomas
A mid career autobiography covering his early struggles to establish himself in test cricket, how his career finally flourished and his thoughts on the game and some of the great players of his time.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Beyond Ten Thousand: Allan Border
This is the definitive autobiography of the man who dragged Australian cricket from the depths by his own sheer determination and bloody mindedness. I can’t imagine a more humble and staunch servant of the game. You won’t hear him singing his own praises, you get the sense that, despite all his accomplishments, he always felt like a kid playing on a hallowed field. He has a reputation for grumpiness, mainly because he always wore his heart on his sleeve. He also has an irrepressible sense of humor which come across beautifully in this celebration of the career of first Australian since Clem Hill to hold the world record for runs in test matches.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket, pages clean and bright.
Price: $15 + p&h Order Ashes Glory: Allan Border
Captain Grumpy’s account of the series that changed it all; the nadir of the previous decade was forgotten and a dynasty lasting a decade and a half was dawning.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket, pages clean and bright.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order
Allan Border an Autobiography: Allan Border
Published in 1986 this is not the definitive account of his career but it does give a picture of his rise to the top of world cricket and his early captaincy career as he struggled to rebuild the Australian team, deal with the press, the ACB and even royalty (they can be so annoying sometimes).
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Border and Beyond: Mark Ray
Mark Ray is a journalist and former first class cricketer. In Border and Beyond he delves into the man and support structures that turned Australian cricket’s fortunes around, taking us from the dark years of the mid eighties to the brilliant glory of the mid nineties.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, cover unmarked, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Simmo, Cricket Now and Then: Bob Simpson
Simmo gave his life to Australian cricket. And he spent longer in the test team dressing room than any man ever; nearly 40 years. He has many tales to tell and they are all worth listening to
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket perfect, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Keeping it Real: Darren Berry with Martin Blake
‘Chuck’ was one of the best keepers never to represent Australia. He was as hard as nails and not afraid to show his emotions. He doesn’t pull any punches in his bio either.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Merv: Merv Hughes with David Emerson
His life and other funny Stories
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Quick Whit: Mike Whitney
His life and other funny stories
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Whiticisms: Mike Whitney
More of his life and other funny stories
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
A Golden Age: Ian Chappell
Ian Chappell collates a collection of his writings from the late 80’s to the 00’s on the rise and rise of Australian Cricket.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
The Chappell Era: Chappelli: Ian Chappell
Ian Chappell was one of the toughest cricketers of his era. He was the leader of a tough and at times arrogant team. They were dubbed the ugly Australians. As such controversy was his constant companion. Chappelli tells the story of his rise to the top in Australian cricket and his take on those controversies. This Autobiography was published in 1976 so it covers his career up to just before the Packer, World Series Cricket days which is the majority of his time in tests.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket shows little ware but has I nick in the top, still very good though, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
The 100th Summer: Greg Chappell
In this volume Australian captain, Greg Chappell, gives us his firsthand account of the 1976-77 summer, 100 years on from the first ever test match at the MCG. He opens proceedings with the 3 test series against Pakistan, then after a brief tour of NZ we get to the main event, the amazing Centenary Test. The whole event was a pageant of Ashes superstars with almost everyone who had pulled on a baggy green or the three lions down the years converging on the MCG. The current crop of players had a lot to live up to and they did not disappoint. The match was a titanic struggle, and Greg, as the captain, takes us with him as his heart rose and sank again and again as fortunes ebbed and flowed.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket very good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Greg Chappell: Adrian McGregor
This well researched, well written, authorised biography of Australia’s 2nd most graceful batsman covers his early life and his whole playing career. It also gives insights into many of the controversies that this intelligent and well mannered man seemed somehow unable to avoid. How does someone so full of grace cause so much trouble?
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very good, cover has no marks or creases, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Golden Boy: Christian Ryan
The subtitle for this book is ‘Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket’. Kim’s career could have been so different if he hadn’t come to prominence during the Packer era. Thrust into captaincy before he was ready, seen as the establishment’s man, resented by the returning WSC players; Dennis Lillee would change nets at training to bowl bouncers at him; all this left it’s mark on this, oh so talented, young man who, in the end, was lost to the game before his time. ‘Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes between the fell incenséd points of mighty opposites . . .
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Lillee, My Life in Cricket: Dennis Lillee
The first of Dennis’ 3 autobiographies, written in 1982 it covers his early career, injuries, comebacks, World Series, the centenary test and his forthright opinions on fellow cricketers.
Style: Paperback, Condition: fair, cover in good nick, Spine good, pages yellowing.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Lillee, Over and Out!: Dennis Lillee
The second of Dennis’ 3 autobiographies, written in 1984 just after the end of his career. This is a forthright look back over his career and the era in which he played.
Style: Hardback, Condition: good, dust cover in good condition, pages clean and bright.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Lillee: Dennis Lillee
The third of Dennis’ 3 autobiographies, written in 2003 after he’d gotten old and grey. This is a forthright look back over his career, the era in which he played and a bit about what’s been happening since then.
Style: Hardback, Condition: excellent, dust cover in great condition, pages clean and bright.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
You’ll Keep: Rod Marsh as told to Ian Brayshaw
The keg on Legs’ 1975 autobiography. Not as controversial as some of his latter works but at this point he still had much to do, yet he had also already done a lot. He’d become, in 1970, the youngest man to keep wicket for Australia and had established himself as a keeper batsman of the highest order having scored 2 centuries and taken over 100 dismissals.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket perfect, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Gloves, Sweat and Tears: Rod Marsh
Why did he retire from test cricket? What did he think of Kim Hughes? What drives Dennis Lillee? Which Chappell was the best leader? At the end of his career there is no holding back on these or any other topics relating to the great game.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Good, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Chappelli Speaks Out: Ashley Mallett with Ian Chappell
Ian Chappell’s never reticent to tell you what he really thinks, in this 2005 bio, written with the assistance 70’s spinner turned author Ashley Mallett, he provides reflection on his career and the prospect of his mellowing with age, at least relatively speaking.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket perfect, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order Lambs to the Slaughter: Graham Yallop
Graham was very bitter about his dumping as Australian captain at the end of the Packer era. He was repaid for his loyalty to the establishment with being unceremoniously axed and forgotten. He was given an impossible task, he did as well as a man in his position could do and was treated unfairly for his trouble. He poured his vitriol onto the page and produced an autobiography that is controversial and illuminating.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good, dust jacket fully covered, pages clean and bright, ex library with sticker on the spine.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
The Chappell Era: Ian Brayshaw
Two brothers, the grandsons of a great; a celebration of their domination of the cricket landscape of their time.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
T.J. Over the Top. Cricket, Prison and Shane Warne: Terry Jenner with Ken Piesse
A test leg-spinner during the Chappell era, Terry Jenner life took a wrong turn. Addicted to gambling he was sent to prison for embezzlement. He felt he had let down his captain, his cricketing mates and, most of all, his family. He didn’t know how he would survive it. After prison he rebuilt his life, and went on to mentor the worlds greatest leggie.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket very good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order Sobers, Twenty Years at the Top: Sir Garfield Sobers with Brian Scovell
One of the true greats of the game. Anything this man has to put down on paper about the game is worth absorbing. Written in the late eighties, he gives us his view of his own career and of what is going on in word cricket at that time, particularly with the then mighty West Indian team.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket very good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Botham, My Autobiography: Ian Botham
Botham’s 1994 autobiography was written just after the final selectorial rebuff put an end to his nth comeback attempt. Boy was he mad about it; and not just that either. Never short of self belief, he tells us what he really thinks of the selectors and many of the other characters he met during his controversial career (funny that none of those controversies were ever his fault). Though he is spleentive and rash (or more probably because he is) his book is a very entertaining read. 2 copies available.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket has some wear but has been polyethylene covered, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Spin Out: Ashley Mallett
Ashley Mallett was Australia’s best off-spinner of the 70’s and also became an accomplished writer. He’s written many books about various elements of the game and many biographies for mates he played with, this one is about himself.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good, no dust jacket.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
The Whole Hogg: Rodney Hogg and Jon Anderson
Did you know that Greg Chappell didn’t talk to Hoggy for nearly a year over the aluminium bat incident? It wasn’t even his bat! Richie Benaud said he looked stupid standing there with two wooden bats whilst being studiously ignored by a truculent Dennis Lillee. Greg called him the worst 12th man Australia has ever had. Hoggy told him to get stuffed, but he was only relaying Dennis’ message. It was a bad day for Hoggy, but a great story!
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
According to Skull: Kerry O’Keeffe
Skull’s highly amusing collection of anecdotes, personal history and analysis of the game and its players.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Fair, cover has some creasing, Spine good, pages clean and bright. Has slight stiffness.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Turn, Turn, Turn . . . Please: Kerry O’Keeffe
Kerry’s other highly amusing collection of anecdotes, personal history and analysis of the game and its players.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, no creasing, Spine good, pages clean and bright.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Test Cricket; Aus vs. Eng & the W.I.: Various
Record of the 79-80 post Packer tri-series Between Australia and England and Australia and the West Indies, with contributions from Bill Lawry, the Chappell’s and match reports by Richie Benaud, with lots of Pics.
Condition: Very Good.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
One-Day Cricket; Aus vs. Eng & the W.I.: Various
Record of the 79-80 post Packer tri-series Between Australia and England and Australia and the West Indies, with contributions from Dennis Lillee, the Chappell’, Richard Hadlee and Allan Border; with lots of Pics.
Condition: Very Good.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Box Set, Cricket Capers: Various
A must for eighties cricket aficionados, containing:
One for the Road: Doug Walters
The Best of Chappelli: Ian Chappell
The Inside Edge: Rod Marsh
Smile Sport: Ian Chappell
Added extra – I’ll throw in a copy of Gloves of Irony by Rod Marsh free!
Style: Hardbacks & box, Condition: Good, pages clean and bright, box in fair condition, the bottom has come undone in one section.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Chappelli the Cutting Edge: Ian Chappell
The elder Chappell’s state of the union on cricket as at 1992
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very good, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Unders and Overs: Greg Chappell
Greg Chappell has a knack for controversy, more-so even than his big brother. This 1981 volume focuses on such incidents as the grubber, the disputed catch and the Sunil Gavaskar’s walk off among others.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Bradman: Bradman’s Best: Roland Perry
Any list of the world greatest team is bound to contain very good cricketers, Bradman’s list is no exception. What makes Parry’s book exceptional is the thoroughness and detail into which Parry goes to paint a picture of the career of these 12 greats and to elucidate what it was that Bradman particularly admired about them. It’s like 12 fully realized biographies in 1. Parry spent the better part of the late 90’s hanging with the great man gathering material for this book and his biography of Bradman.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket very good but has a small patch of sticker discoloration, pages clean and bright. Edition: 2nd.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Bradman: Charles Williams
Much has been written on The Don, this 1997 biography aims to place him is his broader context as an Australian in a young nation struggling for identity on the international stage and to identify heroes of its own. Neil Harvey regards this as the very best bio on Braddles, which is a big call. The Don himself said “It would be stupid to say I enjoyed or agreed with every word, every sentence, and every nuance, but I honestly believe it is a splendid production”. Not praise to be undervalued as Bradman didn’t appreciate many of the bios written about him.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, no creases or marks, pages have some slight yellowing. Edition: 2nd.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Bradman the Illustrated Biography: Michael Page
Bill O’Reilly had some interesting things to say about Michael Page’s opinions of certain off field events expressed in this book. But the value of this tome isn’t so much Mr. Page’s text as the wealth of pictorial material it contains, covering his earliest days up until the end of his career, many of which can be found nowhere else.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket very good but has some fading on the spine (common with this book actually, must be something in the manufacture), pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Haigh, Frith & McGilvray: On Warne: Gideon Haigh
Released in 2012, Haigh’s “On Warne” quickly became one of his most acclaimed books, and Haigh is no stranger to acclaim. His portrait of the greatest cricketer of his (our own) era evokes some of the great works of the cannon; Robinson on Bradman, Cardus on Richardson and Tyldesley, Mailey & Fingleton on Trumper. He deliberately limits his scope to the cricket field and avoids the muckraking of many Warne bios, that’s because this is not a bio, it’s a testament of a man and his art and his time. Like the other works I have mentioned it will preserve his memory for times to come for those who were not there to experience the thrill for themselves, of Warnie at the top of his mark, staring down the wicket at the poor unfortunate batsman, rolling the ball from hand to hand, with that devious half smile which said, “You’ve got no hope, mate!”
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Dust jacket shows very minimal shelf ware. Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order Game for Anything: Gideon Haigh
This is a collection of a decades worth of scribblings from the pen of one of Australia’s most respected crickets writers, the MCA’s own Gideon Haigh. In this book he covers topics ranging from past masters of the game to sledging to the other great writers on the game.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
The Cricket War: Gideon Haigh
Gid’s stunning history of the Packer World Series upheaval that both split and reinvigorated cricket around the world.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: revised edition.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Australian Cricket Anecdotes: Gideon Haigh
The history of Aussie cricket provides rich pickings for little stories.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Good, minimal cover wear, pages clear and bright. Edition: 1st in paperback.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
A Fair Field and No Favour: Gideon Haigh
The story of the greatest Ashes series of all from a man who was there for every ball. 2005 reversed 16 years of one sided Ashes contests and revitalized test cricket, proving once and for all that it is the ultimate form of the game.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, cover perfect, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Battle for the Ashes 2005: David Frith
The story of the greatest Ashes series of all from one of crickets great historians. He predicted England would win before series due to omens and superstitions. One hundred years before in 1905 England had won. Frith’s book provides a lovely summary of that series as a prelude to the main action. Then he launches into the main event; a detailed account of the action, as well as studies of the personalities who shaped one of sport’s most unforgettable contests.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
The Battle Renewed, the Ashes Regained 2006- 2007: David Frith
The sequel to the greatest series of all was the greatest white-wash of all, Australia’s revenge. Again Frith gives us the detailed happenings on the field and the background of the inspired resurgence of Australian cricket.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
The Game is Not the Same…: Alan McGilvray & Norman Tasker
As arguably the greatest Aussie commentator ever (I think probably even better than Benaud), and a former NSW state captain, McGilvray’s views on and insight into the game are worth reading. They are as relevant today as they were when this book was published in the late 80’s. For example he states the ’72 and ’85 tours of England were doomed to failure as no bowler on either tour had experience bowling in The Old Country. If only the 2009 selectors had read this book! I recommend this one as an enlightening and enjoyable read.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
The Game Goes On…: Alan McGilvray & Norman Tasker
The follow up and companion volume to the very popular The Game is Not the Same… McGilvray gives us more of his insights and shares more of his memories of his time playing and broadcasting.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Tales of old England: Calling the Shots: Michael Vaughan
Michael was one of the most successful English captains ever and will always be remembered for regaining the Ashes in 2005 after eighteen long years in the wilderness. Apart from that he was also a stylish left handed opener. I remember his 180 odd during the famous Steve Waugh test in Sydney 2003, he was robbed of a double century by one of the worst LBW decisions I’ve ever seen. It was only time I’d ever hoped an Englishman would score a double ton against Australia (How ironic that Paul Collingwood was the next POM to get one…). Smooth as silk Vaughan.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Coming Back to Me: Marcus Trescothick
Written in 2008, after his breakdown just prior to the 06-07 Ashes Marcus Trescothick reveals what he went through in those agonizing hours. The story of his journey from the 05 triumph to the depths of despair and back to equilibrium won him the William Hill Sports book of the year award 2008.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, cover unmarked, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Arlott in Conversation with Mike Brearley:
Two of the great figures of the English game talk about life, philosophy, the benefits of island life and, oh yes, cricket. Arlott has seen more cricket than anyone else in the world (other than Benaud) and he needs little encouragement to pour forth a stream of remarkable reminiscences.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, Dust jacket very good pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
As it Was, The Memoirs of Fred Trueman: Fred Trueman
Fiery Fred Trueman was one of the great characters of cricket, a great Yorkshireman and a great fast bowler. He was the first man to take 300 test wickets and never gave batsmen or administrators (or team mates) an inch. This is the entertaining story of a cricketer who during his time was a walking headline.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good.
Price: $10 + p&h Order Botham’s Century: Ian Botham
What I like about Botham’s take on the “100 top . . .” genre is that he has chosen the 100 top characters and influences of his cricket life rather than the 100 best cricketers. People like John Arlott, Dickie bird and Mick Jagger all get a mention. He has famous cricketers in there too mind you and he gives us the Both view of their illustrious careers and personalities.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good overall, dust jacket good with some shelf wear and a tiny tear at the top at the spine, pages clean but going a little yellow (they don’t use acid free paper any more, shame). Edition: 1st.
Price: $20 + p&h Order That’s Out: Dickie Bird
This volume is a slim pictorial history of the career of Harold “Dickie” Bird. He wasn’t just a great character, he was also one of the most competent and respected umpires going around; altogether an ornament of the game.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket very good but has a small patch if sticker discoloration, pages clean and bright. Edition: 2nd.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Sporting Skills: Various
Batting: Graham Gooch. Part of a series of instructional books from 1980; Goochie shows us the Mental, Physical and technical attributes required to play all kinds of bowling.
The All-Rounder: Peter Walker. A long time Glamorgan stalwart, good bat, good bowler, excellent fielder, Peter tells us what makes a well rounded all- rounder.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good to fair, dust jacket good, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $5 each + p&h Order
Cricket XXXX Cricket: Frances Edmonds
Frances is the wife of Phil Edmonds the English spinner. Her tale of life on the road following her husband around Australia is hilarious. Frances is not a passive follower, she gets a job hosting a breakfast show from which she got the sack for reading a dirty limerick on air. She hung out with PM’s and celebs and had a whale of a time.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good, dust jacket has a couple of little tears, pages slightly yellowing. Edition: 1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order From the Veldt: Ali, The Life of Ali Bacher: Rodney Hartman
Ali Bacher was the man behind South African cricket for nearly half a century. A victorious captain, he lead the Proteas to the top of the world, which was an unaccustomed position for them, only to be cast out of the game at the height of their greatness. Bacher would not take this lying down and did everything in his power to ensure the game in South Africa did not die and would once again return to the fold to regain their rightful place at the pinnacle of the sport. Nelson Mandela provided the forward.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Cricket Rebels: Chris Harte & Warwick Hadfield
A behind the scenes look into the intrigue and scandal behind the rebel tours to South Africa in the early eighties, including profiles of the rebels.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Good, cover in good nic, Spine good, pages slightly yellowing.
Price: $5 + p&h Order … And Nothing But the Truth?: Deon Gouws
At the turn of the century one of the greatest scandals to rock the world of cricket broke around a figure of seemingly unimpeachable integrity. This was the first book to detail the story of Hansie Cronjé and his misdeeds. Gouws thorough research and extensive interviews shine a light on the depth of amazement and shock within the South African cricket establishment and around the world.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order From Across the ditch: Rhythm and Swing: Richard Hadlee
Hadlee was the Shaky Isles greatest cricketer, and was one of the greats of his era. He was the first man to take 400 test wickets (just as fellow Kiwi Clarrie Grimmett was the first man to 200, although under Aussie colours). He was from a famous cricket family and helped to make the land of the long white cloud, for a while, the match of any cricketing nation. His autobiography written with the help of Richard Brecht is a record of the halcyon days of NZ cricket.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very good, dust jacket show little wear, pages clean and bright.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Histories & Compendiums: The Penguin History of Australian Cricket: Chris Harte with Bernard Whimpress
Perhaps the most comprehensive History of Australian cricket ever written, taking the game from it’s earliest origins in colonial times through to the 2003 World Cup.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very good, dust jacket show little wear, pages clean and bright.
Price: $25 + p&h Order
Barclays World of Cricket: Ed. E.W. Swanton
A great resource on the history of the game containing an excellent and complete section of player biographies of players up to the mid 80’s when this edition was released, timed to coincide the bicentenary of the MCC. Edited by one of the great writers on the game this is a must for any cricket book collection.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, pages clean and bright. Dust jacket shows a little wear at the top if the spine.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Captain Australia: Roland Perry
As Plutarch began the fashion of compiling short biographies of eminent persons in a single volume, it was Ray Robinson who began doing so with Australian cricket captains as his subject. Ray got up to Kim Hughes, Roland Perry updates the genre from handsome Dave Gregory to Steve Waugh.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very Good, pages clean and bright.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
A History of Cricket: Trevor Bailey
As Sir Donald Bradman mentions in the forward “I’m sure his playing background has been of enormous benefit to Trevor in his development as one of the deepest thinkers and soundest critics amongst modern writers.”
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, no dust Jacket, pages clean and bright.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Six and Out, The Legend of Australian and New Zealand Cricket: ed. Jack Pollard
This is a wonderful compendium of ANZAC cricket with contributions from Sir Robert Menzies, Dal Stivens, Dr, H.V. Horden, Jack Pollard, Arthur Mailey, Jack Fingleton, M.A. Noble, Johnny Moyes, R.C. Robertson-Glasgow, Warner, Bradman, Fry, Morris, Miller, Robinson and Cardus to name but a few. You can open it at random and find something illuminating and entertaining to lose yourself in. Heaven.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Good, pages clean and bright.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Middle & Leg: Ed. Jack Pollard
An anthology put together by the Primary Club, i.e. those who have been dismissed for a golden duck in test match cricket. Contributors include Donald Bradman, Bill O’Rielly, Lindsey Hasset, Bill Lawry & a host of others
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: revised edition.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Innings of a Lifetime: Ralph Barker
Ralph tells the story of 11 innings that changed the course of great matches, from such luminaries as Cowdrey, Pollock, Sobers, Walters, Randall and Turner.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, dust jacket fine, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Great Australian Cricket Stories: Ed. Ken Piesse
This collection of stories come from some of the greatest writers on the game and tell the story of cricket in Australia from colonial times to the modern day.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Good, cover good, pages yellowing on the edges.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Bradmans of the Bush: Ken Piesse & Alf Wilson
Cricket isn’t just played on the large stages of the world, it’s also played on synthetic pitches on obscure fields with nary any concrete to be seen. I once said to Nick Michael, park cricket is far better to watch than test cricket, there is always something happening (and you can spread out a picnic). But the great deeds performed there are unheralded and usually only of interest to the 22 people immediately involved. This book lifts out of that obscurity the deeds of those who toiled on fields outside the glare of the multitude that would otherwise have been lost to history.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $15 + p&h Order Famous Cricketing Families: Kersi Meher-Homji
With a forward by Richie Benaud, this meticulously researched coffee table book from Australian based, Indian cricket writer and journalist Kersi Meher-Homji, traces the histories, stories and records of cricket dynasties great and small. Cricket is almost unique in the propensity for related persons to rise to top echelons of the game, from the Graces to the Waughs there is a rich vein of material to draw upon and the comparisons of one family members career to another is endlessly entertaining.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $10 + p&h Order Walker: Caps, Hats & Helmets: Max Walker
A recent collection of cricket anecdotes from a master story teller.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
How to Hypnotise Chooks: Max Walker
A collection of cricket anecdotes from a master story teller.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
How to Tame Lions: Max Walker
A collection of cricket anecdotes from a master story teller.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Fair, has a little tear in the cover, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Curios: Balls, Bats, Stumps and Stats: Mark Dawson
An eclectic collection of cricketing accomplishments and curiosities. For instance, did you know, in NZ’s 2 test tour of WI in 95-96 Roger Twose scored 2, 2, 2, 0 & 2?
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order 1000 Memorable Ashes Moments: Mark Dawson
An eclectic collection of cricket facts about the greatest contest of all.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Cricket in Question: Mark Dawson
A cricket quiz book from the master of cricket trivia.
Style: Paperback, Condition: good.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
The Ashes Strangest Moments: Mark Baldwin
Extraordinary but true tales from over a century of the Ashes.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order All Out for One: Ken Piesse
An A – Z of unusual and interesting occurrences on the cricket field.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Indoor Cricket, the Game, the Skills, the rules: John Harris
As the title suggest, a how to guide to indoor cricket.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order
Almanacs, Yearbooks & Magazines: Wisden Cricketers Almanacks:
The bible. For 149 years, Wisden’s Almanacks have enshrined the deeds of cricketers, tallied their hits and misses, kept count of their records and even recorded their deaths. Apparently Bradman had a complete set, leather bound. Nice. I have the following . . .
1984: 121st Edition, Hardback, with dust jacket, Condition: Excellent
Price: $25 + p&h Order
1985: 122nd Edition, Hardback, with dust jacket, Condition: Excellent
Price: $25 + p&h Order
1988: 125th Edition, Paperback, Condition: Very good, sun fading on spine.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Wisden Australian Cricketers Almanack:
The Australian edition of the bible.
2000-01: 3rd Edition, Hardback, with Dust Jacket, Condition: Very Good
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order The ABC Australian Cricket Almanac:
The Australian Bible. With all the stats of Australian first class and test cricket.
1990: Paperback, Condition: Good, pages clean and bright.
Price: $5 + p&h Order Wisden Cricketer Monthly: Ed. David Frith
The monthly magazine edited by eminent cricket historian David Frith. I have some excellently preserved editions from the late 70’s and early 80’s.
July ‘79: Feat; Ian Botham & Packer Cricket in from the cold
Nov ’79: Feat; Season review
Dec ’79: Feat; All the news
July ’82: Feat; Bob Willis, John Arlott & David Gower (on captaincy)
Nov ’82: Feat; Special nostalgia issue with Sobers, Lindwall and Harvey on the cover
Dec ’82: Feat; Willis, Gower, Ames (on bodyline)
Jan ’83: Feat; Willis & Gower Again, special reports from the Ashes
Feb ’83: Feat; you guessed it Willis and Gower; And Dexter on run-ups Mar ’83: Feat; The pyjama game
Apr ’83: Feat; Bodyline revelation, Colin Croft on Sth. Af.
May ’83: Feat; David Gower ‘I’m sorry’
June ’83: Feat; Clive Lloyd, Wally Hammond
July ’83: Feat; Arlott, Dexter, Gower & Willis
Aug ’83: Feat; Bradles, Laker + the usual suspects
Oct ’83: Feat; Arlott, Laker and the Gerard Awards
Nov ’83: Feat; Boycott
Dec ’83: Feat; Gavaskar’s Everest
Price: $2.50 each + p&h Order
Cricket Yearbook 1991: Ed. Richie Benaud
Packed with colour photos and with contributions from Richie, Ian Chappell, Bill Lawry, Tony Cozier and many more this is a wonderful record of the 1990-91 Ashes and the 1991 Frank Worrell Trophy series and the Aussie domestic summer. A bit like a mini Aussie Wisden with ripper pics.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Benson and Hedges World Series Cup: Various
Official magazine of the 1981-82 One Day International series between Australia, Pakistan & the West Indies.
Style: Magazine, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $10 + p&h Order DVD’s: Cricket in the ‘60s:
The excellent ABC Doco.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
The Real Story, Nasser Hussain:
“An intimate and personal look inside the world of England’s most controversial cricket captain.”
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Steve Waugh, A Perfect Day
The full story of that magical day when Steve, saved his career, passed 10,000 runs and scored an Ashes ton on the last ball of the day.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
VHS: A Century of Wickets:
Vision of some of the great wickets, compiled in 1990 so misses out on the wicket of the century, but entertaining non-the-less.
Price: $2 + p&h Order
A Birds Eye View:
Some of the great moments from the career of Dickie Bird.
Price: $2 + p&h Order
Football: One in a Hundred: Compilation
Published for the AFL’s Centenary in 1996 and subtitled ‘The AFL Centenary Diaries’, this book is the season diaries of champions Gavin Brown, Wayne Carey, James Hird, Glen Jackovich & Tony Modra.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $10 + p&h Order
Novels: Catch-22: Joseph Heller
Cath-22 is one of the great mid 20th Century novels. Uproariously funny and at the same time savagely anti-war, Heller leads us through the war fatigue that afflicted bomber crews as raid after raid their likelihood of survival slowly diminished.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket has no tears, pages clean and bright. Edition: Reprint Society, 1963.
Price: $20 + p&h Order
Lord of the Rings: J. R. R. Tolkien
This 3 volume set of 90’s retro-cover hardbacks of the book of the 20th century is in excellent condition. I bought them for my own collection but I’ve now upgraded to an excellent 70’s edition set. They would be an excellent & handsome addition to any collection.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Pristine, Dust jackets fully covered, pages clean and bright.
Price: $45 + p&h Order
Live and Let Die: Ian Fleming
James Bond’s classic adventure in the Bayou.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket gone, has some foxing. Edition: Preprint Society, 1956
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Lempriere’s Dictionary: Lawrence Norfolk
What serpentine narration secretly connects the founding of the East India Company in 1600, a massacre of innocents at the siege of La Rochelle twenty- seven years later, and the publication of Lempriere’s celebrated classical dictionary on the eve of the French Revolution? The answer is in this ingeniously contrived, spellbinding fable (from the review published in City Limits but says it all).
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
In the Shape of a Boar: Lawrence Norfolk
A mesmerizing novel of love and betrayal, of ancient myths and modern horrors, In the Shape of a Boar begins in the pre-dawn of history and reverberates through the darkest events of the twentieth century. First hunted in ancient Greece, the Boar of Kalydon returns three thousand years later in human guise. The modern hunt leads from 1930’s Romania to wartime Greece and finally to Paris in the 1970’s where the secret of the hunt is exposed.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
Price: $15 + p&h Order
Foucault’s Pendulum: Umberto Eco
Umberto’s great masterpiece, first edition in English.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
Price: $25 + p&h Order
Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter: Capt. W. E. Johns
Classic boys own stuff, Biggles.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Good, no dust jacket, pages yellowing.
Price: $7.50 + p&h Order
The Loser: Peter Ustinov
Yes you read correctly, Sir Peter Ustinov the actor, playwright and . . . novelist. His first novel, set in WWII Europe it follows the travails of a young Nazi, trained for death and not for life and his transformation from monster to lost soul. I love this quote from the blurb, “It’s main setting is war, but it’s deep concern is peace. It is by turns extravagantly funny and grimly serious.”
Style: Hardback, Condition: Fair, dust jacket has some wear, the odd hole and one missing inner flap, pages yellowing with some foxing. Edition: The Book Club, 1962 (was first published in 1961).
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The Shoes of the Fisherman: Morris West
Morris West’s classic novel of a man elevated to the papacy and the struggles of an ancient institution in a rapidly changing mid 20th century world.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket good, pages clean and bright. Edition: Reprint Society, 1964 (was first published in 1963).
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A Severed Head: Iris Murdoch
Martin Lynch-Gibbon is serenely enjoying both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education.
Style: Hardback, Condition: good, dust jacket has some wear, pages yellowing with some foxing. Edition: The Book Club, 1961 (was first published in 1961 but this would be at least a 3rd impression).
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Philosophy: Being and Nothingness: Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre’s master work, this is the text book of existentialist ontology. It examines the pursuit of being and negotiates the problems of nothingness. It offers a full blown metaphysic backed by, and at the same time providing the basis for a complete theory of man.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Pristine & unread, pages clean and bright.
Price: $20 + p&h Order The Secret: Rhonda Byrne
Not truly worthy of the description philosophy perhaps. Given to me as a gift, unread so in perfect condition.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright. Edition: 1st.
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Poetry & Theatre: The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe
Dover Thrift edition of Edgar’s best works.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
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The Crucible: Arthur Miller
What does this book have in common with Cricket? Well, Arthur Miller was married to Marilyn Monroe, who had also been married to Joe DiMaggio the great baseball player and baseball, of course, being an inferior version of a game with ball and stick. Having said all that, what a great play, set around the witch trials of 17th century Salem it parallels the hysteria of McCarthyism that gripped modern 20th century Washington. Never imagine it couldn’t happen again . . .
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
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The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran
Gibran’s beautiful and timeless poetic fable. This is the illustrated 1974 edition.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, Jacket shows some wear, pages clean and bright.
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Plays: George Bernard Shaw
One of the great playwrights of the English language. With his intense social commentary, tight dramatic structures and wry humour GBS never wrote a bad play and they are as enjoyable to read as they are to watch (sometimes more so because of his detailed and enlightening stage directions). These Penguin paperback editions from the 40’s, 60’s & 80’s are in fair condition with some wear and yellowing.
Three Plays for Puritans: contains The Devil’s Disciple, Caesar & Cleopatra & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion.
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Pygmalion: The play that inspired the musical My Fair Lady.
Price $1 – as has come out of it’s cover, but the cover is actually good and the pages are all still together, best broken book I’ve ever seen. Order
Saint Joan: Excellent portrayal of the story of Joan of Arc.
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Major Barbara: Life in the Salvation Army
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Plays Pleasant: Contains Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny & You Never Can Tell.
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Plays: Aristophanes
The great comic playwright of Ancient Greece. These 2 Penguin Classics editions, both paperbacks, are in excellent condition, with no creasing and little shelf ware. They contain:
Lysistrata, The Acharnians & The Clouds
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The Wasps, The Poet and the Women & The Frogs
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Humour: The Grey Area: Sean Hughes
Very funny Irish comedian Sean Hughes gives us a collection of short stories, Autobiographical pieces, poems and observations.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, dust jacket, pages clean and bright.
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National Lampoon’s Doon: Unattributed
Piss-take of Frank Herbert’s classic Sci-Phi novel Dune, with beer instead of the Spice and giant pretzel’s in place of sand worms.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Very good, pages beginning to yellow.
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Warwick Todd Goes the Tonk: Tom Gleisner
Piss-take of the ubiquitous Aussie cricketer tour diary.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Good, a little stiff.
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Asterix and the Normans: Goscinny & Uderzo
A classic.
Style: Soft-cover, Condition: Good, Some fraying at the top and bottom of the spine.
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General interest: People of Quality: Collie Knox
Plutarch began the fashion of compiling short biographies of various people into one volume. This volume published in 1947 reveals the lives of English soldiers, statesmen, clergy and . . . Noel Coward.
Style: Hardback, Condition: good, dust jacket has some wear, pages yellowing with some foxing.
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management: Who Moved My Cheese: Dr. Spencer Johnson
No#1 best seller on dealing with change, based on a parable of mice in a maze, looking for the cheese. Sure to give you a competitive advantage over the other rats in the race. Oft quoted by Gideon Haigh.
Style: Paperback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
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Science: The Greenhouse Trap: Francesca Lyman et al
Written in 1990 this book lays the ground work for the science of global warming. Can you imagine a world without cricket grounds? I don’t even want to contemplate such a thing.
Style: Hardback, Condition: Excellent, pages clean and bright.
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