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Introduction

This year sees the twentieth anniversary since In 2008 we published Tony Laughton‟s award- Amongst other special items we were privileged to Books was formed in by Tony winning book on the life and works of Albert Craig catalogue, was a virtually complete set of Laughton, Alan Harrison and myself. In 1989 we - of the Crowd. I would like to think this Lillywhite‟s Guide, including the rare 1853 issue; were all avid collectors and had been offered an has set the bar even higher in terms of production J M Barrie‟s Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway opportunity to produce the first Limited Edition standards and research scholarship. Most recently, (1899); Sir Jeremiah Colman‟s The Noble volume in the MCC Cricket Library Series - we produced the gargantuan 1100pp volume, Game of Cricket; Nicholas Wanostrocht‟s Felix on Sketches at Lord’s - my book on the 19th The Archive, a fantastic record of one the Bat and countless other rarities. In Catalogue cricket lithographs of J C Anderson, co-written with man‟s life-long obsession with the game and its 29 we offered a very special copy of Trowsdale‟s a good friend, the late Professor Derek West. endless possibilities for collecting and archiving. In Autograph Birthday Book, signed by 400 an unintended piece of symmetry this was our cricketers from the Golden Age. In 1998 we Enthused by this project, we decided to make twentieth new title in twenty years. supplied a unique archive of letters relating to the Boundary Books a vehicle for further publishing tour and which formed ventures and soon dipped a toe in the world of More titles are in the pipeline and these will follow an important contribution to the history of that dealing in rare and collectable books and the path that we have stuck to throughout these troubled period in the game. autographs. As collectors, we were dissatisfied twenty years. We have shunned the fashion for with the available outlets for selling our duplicates producing facsimiles of old books as that is In 2007 Tony Laughton and Alan Harrison both and generally felt there was room for a small catered for elsewhere. Our niche remains original bowed out of Boundary Books to concentrate on specialist dealer who was in sympathy with the works of cricket history, produced to a high their own collections and other projects. They very needs of collectors and could operate on low standard, in a form that is of interest to both col- generously helped me to continue the business overheads and modest margins. In particular, at lectors and students of the game. alone and both remain good friends and support- that time autograph material was not being ers of our endeavours. At the same time I To complement publishing, we have offered properly dealt with and we saw this as a need re-located from Cheshire to Oxfordshire and the selections of rare and second-hand cricket books, that should be satisfied. Since then, of course, new stock came with me, eventually to our new autographs and memorabilia in 38 numbered cricket dealers and auction houses have blossomed showrooms in Stanford in the Vale. catalogues and numerous un-numbered stock lists, as our hobby has gained in popularity. newsletters and e-alerts. We have tried to unearth I am now able to devote more time to Boundary Through the nineties we published a number of the unusual and ephemeral rather than produce Books and have welcomed the opportunity to meet interesting books by authors who became good long lists of more easily obtainable books. far more of the customers who had previously only friends and supporters of Boundary Books and been voices on the end of a telephone line or Catalogue One was a slim little photocopied seemed highly satisfied with our products. These names on a mailing list. While the internet and affair but it did contain an 1876 Wisden in included some big names in the world of cricket - e-mails have made so many aspects of collecting original wrappers for £470! Soon after, we sold , , , Botham, cricket books easier, many of us regret the A D Taylor‟s own of the first fifteen issues of , E W Swanton - as well as highly gradual passing of the old collector/dealer Wisden - complete with original wrappers - for acclaimed researchers and writers like Gerald relationship. In my own case this was nurtured by £23,400, a sum that would hardly buy the 1864 Brodribb, Sir Michael Marshall, Tony Laughton, countless trips to Ted Brown‟s emporium in volume now. Different times indeed. , Jack Hearne and David Cornwall where buying books was more about Frith. In 2001 we renewed our collaboration with Other highlights in those early Catalogues were talking, discussing and drinking tea than the more MCC to publish the monumental Great Cricketers. regular items from famous collections of the past - frenetic ways of today. The Age of Grace and Trumper by George Beldam. these included , (his set Finally, let me thank you for your highly valued This was followed by another finely illustrated of personal diaries), Siegfried Sassoon, E K Brown, custom, which for many goes back to the start of book in the MCC series - Felix and the Eleven of E G Wynyard, Charlie Barnett, Hal Cohen, H S Boundary Books, and I hope that you all enjoy this by Gerald Brodribb. For both of these, Altham, John Arlott, Jim Coldham and G F Earle. special twentieth anniversary catalogue. we were indebted to the initiative and encourage- We also acquired the complete libraries of ment of Jim Swanton who ensured that two such E W Swanton and Gerald Brodribb and continue Michael Down worthy projects could see the light of day. to sell items from these important sources. Childrey, October 2009

CATALOGUE 38: CONTENTS

SECTION 1: SECTION 11: THE WORKS OF F S ASHLEY-COOPER BOUNDARY BOOKS PUBLICATIONS ITEMS 1-40; PAGES 1-5 ITEMS 282-286; PAGES 43-44

SECTION 2: SECTION 12: TOUR BOOKS AND BROCHURES AUTOGRAPHED CRICKETERS‟ LETTERS ITEMS 41-90, PAGES 6-11 ITEMS 287-319, PAGES 45-48

SECTION 3: SECTION 13: BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY AUTOGRAPHS ITEMS 91-124, PAGES 12-15 ITEMS 320-385, PAGES 49-50

SECTION 4: SECTION 14: COUNTY AND CLUB CRICKET PHOTOGRAPHS ITEMS 125-165; PAGES 16-20 ITEMS 386-400, PAGES 51-56

SECTION 5: SECTION 15: EARLY HISTORY, ANNUALS, PERIODICALS POSTCARDS ITEMS 166-202, PAGES 21-25 ITEMS 401-412, PAGE 57

SECTION 6: SECTION 16: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND COLLECTORS CRAIG - THE POET ITEMS 203-215, PAGES 26-27 ITEMS 413-428, PAGES 58-59

SECTION 7: SECTION 17: LITERATURE, ESSAYS, PICTORIAL RECORDS PAINTINGS AND PRINTS ITEMS 216-238, PAGES 28-31 ITEMS 429-439, PAGES 60-62

SECTION 8: SECTION 18: OVERSEAS CRICKET CERAMICS, BRONZES, OBJECTS ITEMS 239-269, PAGES 32-34 ITEMS 440-449, PAGES 63-65

SECTION 9: SECTION 19: A SELECTION OF OUTSTANDING BOOKS ROCKLEY WILSON AND HIS FAMILY ITEMS 270-281, PAGES 35-39 ITEMS 450– 463, PAGES 66-69

SECTION 10: SECTION 20: WISDEN CRICKETER‟S ALMANACK SCORECARDS PAGES 40-42 ITEMS 464-472, PAGE 70

The Works of F S Ashley-Cooper

1. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S 4. WARNER, P F & ASHLEY-COOPER, F S 7. BETTESWORTH, W A Cricket Highways and Byways Oxford v Cambridge at the Chats on the Cricket Field. With ex- Allen & Unwin, 1927. A very good copy in Allen & Unwin, 1926. A fine copy in planatory notes by F S Ashley-Cooper a well preserved, scarce dust wrapper. One original, well preserved dust jacket. Merritt & Hatcher, 1910. Original cloth, a of Ashley-Cooper‟s most enduring and read- (illustrated below) £40 fine copy. A substantial volume, 468pp, full able books, including chapters on “Cricket as of interest. Includes chapters on the leading a Hobby” and “Books and Writers”. 5. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S Golden Age cricketers plus cricket authors (illustrated below left) £80 Club and collectors - CW Alcock, Rev James Vol II 1900-1920 Pycroft, HVL Stanton, AL Ford, SH Pardon 2. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S , 1921. Original cloth, a very good and Fred Gale. The book is riddled with Gentlemen v Players copy with slightly faded spine. £65 Ashley-Cooper‟s informative notes. £75 Arrowsmith, 1900. Original decorative cloth, a very good copy. This book surveys the 6. HAYGARTH, A famous series of matches from their begin- MCC Cricket Scores and Biographies ning in 1806. (illustrated below) £50 Volume XV. Ed. F S Ashley-Cooper Longmans, 1925. Original cloth. There is 3. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S some discoloration to the end-papers but Cricket and Cricketers o/w this is a very good copy, clean and Saxton, 1923. Original cloth, very good. tight. Ashley-Cooper took all Haygarth‟s Presentation copy from A W Shelton to G K notes after his death and turned them into Alcock, referring to his father who was this (then) final volume of S&B. It contains probably the Mansfield - based collector just biographies rather than match scores E R B Alcock. A very full county history - and also serves as an index to the previous 410pp of concentrated text and well 14 volumes. It runs to 437pp and is illustrated. Includes a bibliography of invaluable. (illustrated right) £225 Nottinghamshire cricket. £40

8. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S at the Wicket. With some biographical notes, poems and genealogical tables St James‟ Press, 1922. Original cloth, spine worn o/w good. Gerald Brodribb‟s copy, his bookplate and signature. £40 9. LORD HARRIS & ASHLEY-COOPER, F S Cricket Matches 1719-1880 Gibbs & Sons, 1929. Original cloth, good, faded and marked covers (as often). £35

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10. DAFT, R (Edited by F S Ashley-Cooper) 15. PYCROFT, Rev James 17. LORD HARRIS & ASHLEY-COOPER, F S A Cricketer‟s Yarns. The Cricket-Field. Edited with an Intro- Lords‟s and the MCC. A cricket chroni- London, 1926. Original cloth, a fine copy. duction by F S Ashley-Cooper cle of 137 years, based on official Ashley-Cooper edited the papers of Richard St James‟ Press, 1922. Original cloth, spine documents and published with the Daft for publication after his death. £40 gilt fading and some splitting o/w a good knowledge and sanction of the Mary- copy. One of Ashley-Cooper‟s finest works. lebone Cricket Club to commemorate 11. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S Not only does he the centenary of their present ground Edward Mills Grace, Cricketer contribute a percep- London & Counties Press Association, 1914. Chatto & Windus, 1916. original cloth, a tive Introduction and Original quarter leather, top edge gilt. A fine copy. (illustrated below left) £90 analytical appendi- fine copy in original state. Often the spine ces (Bibliography of 12. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S leather deteriorates but this is a highly col- the editions, account lectable copy of an imposing volume, full of Curiosities of First-class Cricket of Pycroft‟s life, etc) scarce illustrations and mainly relying on Searle, 1901. Rebound in gray/brown cloth, but virtually every Ashley-Cooper‟s encyclopaedic knowledge with original paper wraps preserved; some page has detailed of the game. This is the First Edition, far small nicks to covers and pencil annotations footnotes pursuing more attractive and desirable than the 1920 but generally a good copy. £95 some fascinating reprint. (illustrated below) £135 byway of cricket 13. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S history. A lifetime of cricket historical re- Curiosities of First-class Cricket search distilled into one volume. This copy Searle, 1901. Original decorative cloth/gilt. has the unusual and attractive bookplate of Limited Edition of 100 copies. Unfortunately, Epworth Press, the premier dealer in rare the limitation/signature label has been cricket books, managed throughout the 50s removed. Otherwise this is a fine copy. and 60s by Leslie Gutteridge. £45 (illustrated below) £155

16. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S 14. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S W G Grace Cricketer. A record of his The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772 performances in first-class matches -1796. Including reproduction of the John Wisden, 1916. Rebound in cloth/gilt minute and account books of the club without original wrappers. A good copy London, 1924. A fine copy in the rare dust with slight marking to covers. Issued on the jacket. (illustrated below) £85 death of WG. £140

18. [ASHLEY-COOPER, F S] Cricket Records compiled from Wisden‟s Cricketers‟ Almanack Combridges, 1926. A volume in “Hay‟s Sports and Games Series”. Ashley-Cooper‟s records section reprinted in its entirety from Wisden 1926. Original boards, a very good copy. £25 2

THE WORKS OF F S ASHLEY-COOPER

19. WESTON, G Neville THE C H RICHARDS PAMPHLETS Bibliography of the Cricket Works of the late F S Ashley-Cooper 21. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S 24. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S (Ed.) For the author, 1933. Original boards, very The Australian Cricket Guide 1926. How to Play Clarke by N Felix good, with official stamp and prominent A Book of Records Edited, with an Introduction by accession number Richards, 1926. Original wrappers, very F S Ashley-Cooper from the Karl Auty good. These delightful little books were Richards, 1922. Original wrappers, a very Cricket Library, produced in a short annual series by C H good copy with slight markings to rear Ontario. No.94 Richards in . Also available: wrapper. The original booklet by Felix is of an edition of The New Zealand Cricket Guide 1927 unprocurable - some say there are only 3 100, signed and The West Indies cricket Guide 1928 copies extant. A typical example of numbered by The South African Cricket Guide 1929 Ashley-Cooper‟s wonderful feeling for the Weston. The Australian Cricket Guide 1930 game‟s arcane literature. £90 Signed inscription from its original The New Zealand Cricket Guide 1931 25. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S owner, A W Shel- (illustrated below) £90 ea A Cricket Song by N Felix ton, the Notts CCC 22. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S (Ed) Richards, 1923. Original wraps, very President and Cricket: An Heroic Poem by James good. Another of Ashley-Cooper‟s delight- noted collector, to ful little monographs produced by the Not- Love. James Love Bicentenary L Youngren. tingham printer C H Richards. This one Weston pays a handsome tribute to Shelton‟s Edition reprints a poem by Felix from the original assistance in compiling this bibliography. Richards, 1922. Original wrappers, very manuscript version in the possession of A L Shelton also assisted in the sale of Ashley- good. Inscribed copy from A W Shelton to Ford. To this is added the author‟s scrupu- Dr T R Hunter, a famous early collector. Cooper‟s unrivalled collection to Sir Julien lous commentary and footnotes. £95 Cahn on his death. £300 £110 26. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S 20. NYREN, J 23. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S Richards‟ Nottinghamshire Cricket The Young Cricketer‟s Tutor (Ed, with Nottinghamshire Cricket Champion- Guide for 1923 (Edited by “Incog”) an Introduction, by F S Ashley-Cooper) ship Souvenir, 1929 Richards, 1923. Original wrappers, fine Gay & Bird, 1902. Original cloth, very Richards, 1929. Original wrappers, very copy with staples rusting slightly (as al- good. In many ways the most useful edition good. A second edition was produced the ways). Ashley-Cooper edited this annual same year and copies of both are of Nyren since it contains Ashley-Cooper‟s from 1920 until 1931. £110 erudite historical foot-notes and Introduction. available. £95 ea (illustrated below) £40

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27. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S 35. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S Nottinghamshire Cricket Records Duke and Son‟s Record of Test Match Richards, 1928. Original wrappers, very Cricket good, slight stain to corner of cover. Includes Penshurst; Duke & Sons, 1912. Original the erratum . £95 wrappers, a very good copy. Very rare pre-tour brochure for the 1912 Triangular 28. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S Tournament. Nice photograph of the The Rev. John Mitford on Cricket. With 1911/12 Ashes winning team. a Biographical Note (illustrated below) £300 Richards, 1921. Original wrappers, very good. £95 29. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S England v . 100th Test Match Souvenir Richards, 1921. Original wrappers, very 31. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S

good. £95 Feats, Facts and Figures of 1902

Printed privately for the author, 1903. Original wrappers, spine repaired, a very OTHER PAMPHLETS good copy. Limited Edition of 30 copies, signed by the author. This copy is inscribed to 30. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S R Leigh Ibbs. Ibbs was a successful County Cricket musical agent as well as being a noted G W May, 1924. Original stiffened wrap- cricket enthusiast and playing member of pers. A good copy. A well-illustrated MCC. He was Secretary of the Hampstead history produced on heavyweight, high Cricket Club for whom Ashley-Cooper wrote quality art paper. One of a small county a rare pamphlet just the year before this

series produced by Ashley-Cooper with this presentation. (illustrated above) £2000 publisher, the others being: 32. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S Derbyshire County Cricket 36. WYNNE-THOMAS, P Feats, Facts and Figures of 1904 Kent County Cricket F S Ashley-Cooper. A Biographical Printed privately for the author, 1905. Hampshire County Cricket Sketch and Bibliography (illustrated below) £85 ea Original wrappers, spine repaired, a very good copy. Limited Edition of 30 copies, ACSH, 2003. Original stiffened wrappers,

signed by the author. This copy is inscribed very good. Indispensible companion for the Ashley-Cooper collector. Detailed biogra- to Rev R S Holmes. £2000 phy and authoritative bibliography, well 33. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S ahead of anything published before. John Wisden‟s Cricket Match Histories £15 III - Middlesex v Surrey 1730-1921 37. LIEUT-COLONEL JOHN MAY Wisden, 1922. Original stiffened wrappers, Cricket in North Hants. Records and good £40 Reminiscences 34. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S Warren & Son, 1906. Original half cloth Kent Cricket Records 1719-1929 binding with fine gilt decoration, an Kent Herald, 1929. Original stiffened unusually fine copy. The book‟s opening wrappers, very good. £95 chapter is “Hambledon” by F S Ashley- Cooper but it would appear that he may also have contributed elsewhere. £95

4 THE WORKS OF F S ASHLEY-COOPER

38. BETTESWORTH, W A The Walkers of Southgate. A Famous THE ASHLEY-COOPER CHRISTMAS CARDS Brotherhood of Cricketers Methuen, 1900. Original cloth, a very good For three years - 1927, 1928 and 1929 - copy. The statistical section was produced Ashley-Cooper privately produced small by F S Ashley-Cooper and runs to some booklets to give as Christmas cards to his 52pp. The author acknowledges, however, fellow collectors. They were produced as that Ashley-Cooper also helped him in “many pamphlets with stiff card covers and other ways”. £45 contained typical pieces of Ashley-Cooper historical research. Each is decorated with his PHOTOGRAPH bookplate to the front cover and they typically have the recipient‟s name hand- written by Ashley-Cooper. Earlier, in 1922, Ashley-Cooper produced a similar little item - A Cricket Song by Samuel Reynolds Hole - which bears no indication of seasonal greeting but which indirect evidence suggests was used as a Christmas card, again for fellow collectors. There is often confusion over this item, partly because in the following year, 1923, Ashley-Cooper produced A Cricket Song, by N Felix. The latter was a commercial publication by C H Richards, however, and is far easier to obtain today. Padwick also attributes the 1922 booklet to Richards but there is no evidence for this. The cover simply states “Printed Privately” and 39. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S while this may well have been undertaken by Richards it was not his publication. One copy Printed Photograph has been seen with an accompanying letter Printed photograph (9cm x 11cm, sheet Mead‟s Hundreds. A Note which clearly indicates that Ashley-Cooper With Best Wishes for Christmas 1927 14cm x 20cm) of Ashley-Cooper in later used it as a Christmas card that year. years. This was an off-print from Weston‟s 4pp plus card covers. Bibliography (see item 19) £45 All four of these little booklets are rare due to Cricket Veterans the private nature of their circulation. We are With Best Wishes for Christmas 1928 LETTER pleased to be able to offer the full set which 7pp plus card covers. Inscribed to Fred A has been tastefully preserved in a superb Brooke. 40. ASHLEY-COOPER, F S solander case. They comprise: 2pp ALS dated 2 July 1928 to J C Davis, Kent Cricket: A Few Notes Australian cricket historian and journalist. With Best Wishes for Christmas 1929 Full of great bibliographic gems: “The old A Cricket Song by Samuel Reynolds 16pp plus card covers. Inscribed to Fred A Guide reached me today . . . The generous Hole Brooke. This final pamphlet in the series was review you gave of Cricket Highways and Edited, with a Foreword, by F S Ashley- far more ambitious and contained sections Byways . . That unique souvenir is on my Cooper. Printed Privately (1922), 4pp plus on The Kent Match List, Woolley‟s Hundreds study wall . . . I did not apply to Mr Camp- card covers and Ames‟ Wicket-Keeping. bell of ! . . . I hope to compile an article on the history of the game in Austra- the set £1600 lia . . . I fear the West Indies team has been rather a disappointment, etc”. £135

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Tour Books and Brochures

41. THE CABINET. A repository of Facts, 44. WARNER, P F 46. WARNER, P F Figures and Fancies relating to the Cricket in Many Climes Cricket Across the Seas. Being an voyage of the “Great Britain” S.S. from Heinemann, 1900. A fine copy in the origi- Account of the Tour of Lord Hawke‟s to Melbourne with The nal cloth with “cricket ball” map of the world Team in New Zealand and Australia Eleven of England and other to front board. Often found in inferior bind- Longmans, 1903. A fine copy in original distinguished passengers ings this is the most collectable version. cloth. (illustrated below) £170 Excellent book that covers some interesting Melbourne; J Reid, 1862. This is a facsimile tours – Lord Hawke‟s team to WI 1897 and 47. WARNER, P F reprint of the very rare original. Stories and SA 1899/1900; Warner‟s to Philadelphia frequent references to Parr‟s team who were How We Recovered 1897 and Canada/USA 1898; Westray‟s to Chapman & Hall, 1904. Original cloth/gilt the first to visit Australia. £18 Oporto 1898. Rowland Bowen said: “the with MCC colours and emblem to front 42. FITZGERALD, R A book is not easy to come by and with its vast board, top edge gilt. A fine copy of a large in the West or the Twelve in number of illustrations is well worth having” book which often deteriorates. An imposing America (illustrated below) £125 and attractive volume. (illustrated below) £135 Tinsley 1873. A fine copy in original cloth 45. HOBBS, J B with gilt decoration to spine and front board. Recovering the „Ashes‟. Account of 48. LAVER, F Nicely signed to the front free end-paper to the Cricket Tour in Australia 1911/12 An Australian Cricketer on Tour. Henry Perkins from S Ponsonby Fane, May Pitman, 1912. Original paper covered Reminiscences, Impressions and 1882. (illustrated below) £230 boards with illustration of Hobbs. The spine Experiences of Two Trips always disintegrates on this book but this Chapman & Hall, 1905. Original green copy has been expertly re-backed to cloth, slight marking to covers and foxing to become a fine and attractive example. some pages but a good, tight copy. Con- Bowen said: “far more workmanlike (than tains Laver‟s fascinating candid photographs Warner’s book on the same tour). . . very, from the 1899 and 1905 tours. £175 very difficult to come by”. £60

43. PRINCE With Stoddart‟s Team in Australia Bowden, 1898. Third Edition, a fine copy in original cloth/gilt with photograph of Ranji to front board. Full account of the 1897/98 Ashes tour. (illustrated above) £50

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49. MAY, P R 50. FENDER P G H With the MCC to New Zealand Defending the Ashes Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1907. Original cloth, Chapman & Hall, this is a signed presentation copy from the 1921. Very author “To Sam Day with love from the good copy in author, PR May”. May was a Cambridge original cloth. who played for Surrey as a fast bowler Handsome before becoming a school master at Elstree inscription to end- and being lost to the game. He was also a paper “To “Fred” fine footballer, gaining his Blue at with every good Cambridge and playing for Corinthians. wish from P.G.H.F. Sam Day was one of the famous brother- 11/7/21”. hood who played for Kent. He had been at Bookplate of Cambridge just before May and also Tony Woodhouse. Rowland Bowen wrote of played football for Corinthians. Day was a the four Tour books by Fender: “these books fine footballer who went on to play for are unequivocally the most outstanding England. descriptions of Test series that we have ever encountered.” £175 51. WARNER, P F England v Australia The Record of a Memorable Tour 55. MAILEY A A Mills & Boon, 1912. A good copy in the Mailey‟s original cloth, slightly worn to extremities of County and Sketches by This is an excellent tour book, full of detail the spine. £85 the Great Australian Bowler and well illustrated. JF Macpherson also Graphic Publications, 1921. Produced contributes appendices which provide 52. GILLIGAN, AER: Collins‟ Men during the tour with cartoons depicting some detailed biographies of the touring team Arrowsmith, 1926. A very good, clean copy of the early county matches and the First and a good history of New Zealand cricket. with spine fading as always £35 Test. Original wrappers, a very good copy. This volume has the attractive bookplate of Epworth Press and was formerly in the 53. WARNER, P F £115 collection of John Arlott. It is a fine copy in The MCC in the original cloth, without any of the deterio- Capetown; J C Juta & Co, 1906. Bound in ration normally associated with this title. half red morocco with raised bands and gilt Extraordinarily, it does show Arlott in a decoration to spine. An attractive copy in surprising light considering his great love for very good condition. More often found with books and his authority as a collector. The the title page imprint of Chapman & Hall, front end-paper carries his hand-written London. (illustrated above) £145 instructions to his binder to trim “another 1/8 inch” from the boards so that the book will fit 54. SEWELL, E H D the shelf that Arlott wanted. They have car- Triangular Cricket. ried out his wishes professionally, but how Being a Record of the Greatest Contest odd? Of this book Rowland Bowen said: in the History of the Game “It is quite the sort of book one would have Dent, 1912. A fine copy in original cloth expected from the King’s Printers and it is a with attractive school prize bookplate. Very pity a few of their books are not of the same scarce and full account of the never standard now. The book is well worth having repeated experiment of England, Australia but is scarce.” £275 and South Africa playing a triangular tournament during an English summer. (illustrated above right) £285 7 BOUNDARY BOOKS

56. HENLEY, H J (Ed) Test Match Souvenir London; St Dunstan‟s, 1921. Contributions by Warner, Jessop, Hirst, Ernie Hayes, Mailey, Jephson. Also includes 2 coloured illustra- tions by EH Shepard and GL Stampa. Pre-tour for the 1921 Australians, produced to aid St Dunstan‟s charity. A fine copy with original wrappers well preserved in John Arlott‟s green binding. (illustrated right) £85 57. WARNER, P F The Fight for the Ashes in 1926. Being a critical account of the Australian Tour in England Harrap, 1926. Original cloth, a very good, tight and clean copy with slight markings to 59. BAILLIE, E H M 60. CARDUS, N front board. £30 The Sporting Globe Cricket Book Australia v England 1877-1926. 1928/29 Guardian, 1926. Original 58. NOBLE, M A Melbourne; For the author, 1928. Original wrappers, good. A substantial and well- The Fight for the Ashes 1928/29 wrappers, a good copy, covers slightly illustrated pre-tour brochure with much text A Critical Account of the English tour soiled. Substantial pre-tour brochure which by Cardus. (illustrated above centre) £45 in Australia also covers inter-state cricket. This copy Harrap, 1929. A fine copy in the rare dust includes the unusual Sporting Globe Cricket 61. CARDUS, N jacket, creased but still in good decorative Supplement for 1928/29. This is a full The Australians in England 1934 order. (illustrated below) £125 broadsheet page issued with the newspaper Manchester Guardian, 1934. Original in March 1929 and records the Australian wrappers, very good. Small publication season and the MCC tour. £85 issued as a pre-tour brochure for the 1934 tour. Contains tributes to the writing of Cardus (“Cricketer” of ) and a Who‟s Who of the tourists written by him. (illustrated above right) £35 62. WARNER, P F The Fight for the Ashes in 1930 Being a critical account of the Australian Tour in England Harrap, 1930. A fine copy in a very well preserved and scarce dust jacket. (illustrated left) £125 63. JARDINE, D R Ashes – and Dust Hutchinson, 1934. A fine copy in a good example of the rare dust jacket. (illustrated middle left) £85

8 TOUR BOOKS AND BROCHURES

64. FENDER, P G H The Turn of the Wheel MCC Team Australia, 1928-1929 Faber & Faber, 1929. Original cloth, split- ting to spine and front board slightly worn. Superbly signed by Fender to title page – good contemporary signature. £135 65. FENDER, P G H The Tests of 1930 The 17th Australian Team in England Faber & Faber, 1930. Original cloth, a fine copy. With the attractive old bookplate of H Smith Turberville and the modern book- plate of Roy Arnold which has been signed by Fender in a shaky hand when he was old and frail. £95 66. FENDER, P G H Kissing the Rod The Story of the Tests of 1934 69. TURNBULL, M J & ALLOM, M J C 72. MAQSOOD, M H & MERCHANT, M I Chapman & Hall, 1934. A fine copy in a good example of the scarce dust jacket. The Book of the Two Maurices Pakistan vs England With the modern bookplate of Roy Arnold Being some account of the tour of an Karachi; Pakistan Printing Works, 1954. A which has been signed by Fender in a shaky MCC team through Australia and New very good copy in the scarce and attractive hand when he was old and frail. Zealand in the closing months of 1929 dust jacket – well preserved with just some old sellotape repairing the top and bottom (illustrated right) £110 and the beginning of 1930 of the spine. An attractive book in unusually Allom & Co, 1930. Original cloth, a fine 67. EAST, L copy. Signature of ownership of EH Riches – good state. (illustrated above) £120 Autographed Sketches of the 1930 a Glamorgan connection with Turnbull and 73. HARRIS, B Australian Cricketers. Drawn from life NVH Riches? Bowen said: “a light-hearted 1937 Australian Test Tour and happy book written by two jolly cricket- by Laurence East. With biographical Hutchinson, 1937. A fine copy in a very notes by G C Dixon ers . . . not easy to find.” £110 good and scarce dust jacket. Jenkins, 1930. Rebound in rexine, good 70. TURNBULL, M J & ALLOM, M J C (illustrated above) £75 £25 The Two Maurices Again 74. HINTZ, O S 68. BAILY, R (Ed) Being some account of the tour of the The New Zealanders in England, 1931 England v Australia MCC team through South Africa in the Dent, 1931. Very good, in original black Special Test Match edition of Lord‟s closing months of 1930 and the begin- cloth with silver lettering. Bowen: “it is not a and Oval Annual ning of 1931 well-known cricket item but it is well worth 1930. Original wrappers, a very good Allom & Co, 1931. A good copy with slight having. . . it is not easy to find.” £38 copy of a frail item. Pre-tour brochure for foxing to title page and edges, covers the 1930 Australians tour but also includes slightly marked. £110 75. HARRIS, B some interesting items such as the full words Jardine Justified. and music to “And Oval-time Means Hobbs” 71. NOBLE, M A The Truth about the Ashes written by Thomas Moult. Also another poem Gilligan‟s Men. A Critical Review of Chapman & Hall, 1933. A very good copy by Moult (“Here Come the Cornstalks”) and the MCC Tour of Australia, 1924/25 of the First Edition, in original cloth, nicely a short article by Dudley Carew £45 Chapman & Hall, 1925. Original cloth, a signed by Bruce Harris on the end-paper. fine copy. £35 £80

9 BOUNDARY BOOKS

76. CAPLE, S C England v New Zealand 1902-1949. A Brief History of Cricket Between the Two Countries Barcliff Advertising & Publishing, 1949. Original wrappers, very good. A pre-tour publication for the 1949 New Zealanders tour to UK. Nice inscription and signature from the author who provides his usual compe- tent history £35 77. BAILLIE, E H M The Sporting Globe Cricket Book 1936/37 Melbourne; For the author, 1936. Original wrappers, very good. Substantial pre-tour brochure which also covers inter-state cricket as well as the tourists. (illustrated right) £45 81. LEE, F The Ashes? 78. SOUTH AFRICANS TOUR TO UK 1947 Melbourne; Magnet Publishing, 1937. Pre-tour brochure Original wrappers, large format, very good. 82. AUSTRALIANS TO ENGLAND 1938 A W Simpson, 1947. Original wrappers, a An impressive souvenir produced for the good copy with slight wear to the edges of Test Cricket Souvenir 1938 deciding Test Match of the 1936/37 Ashes Melbourne; The Age & The Leader. the front wrapper. Nicely signed to the pen- series, played at Melbourne. Frank Lee pictures by all 17 tourists including Alan Original wrappers, large format, very good. provides full page “Cricketures” of both Scarce Australian production. Melville, , Rowan and Viljoen. teams. This copy is signed by both captains, (illustrated above) £85 (illustrated below centre) £325 and Gubby Allen, on the cover and again inside on their respective carica- 79. SOUTH AFRICANS TOUR TO UK 1960 tures. Rare to find this difficult title signed. Pre-tour brochure (illustrated below right) £275 Playfair Books, 1960. Original wrappers, a fine copy. Nicely signed to the pen- pictures by all 15 tourists including McGlew, McLean, Adcock and Tayfield. £225

80. JARDINE, D R In Quest of the Ashes Hutchinson, 1933. A very good copy of the first edition, without the usual deterioration of the cloth. Superbly signed to the recto of the title page by RES Wyatt, H Sutcliffe, H Larwood and W Voce. Good, clear contemporary signa- tures. (illustrated right) £295

10 TOUR BOOKS AND BROCHURES “The Invincibles” - 1948 Australians

83. KARDAR, A H Green Shadows 88. “OUTFIELD" (Compiler) Karachi; 1958. A fine copy in well The Bradman Book preserved and scarce dust jacket. The Story and Records of the World's (illustrated above) £125 Greatest Cricketer 84. KARDAR, A H Melbourne; Atlas, 1948. Wrappers, a fine Inaugural Test Matches copy. Produced as a pre-tour 1948 An eye-witness account of the publication. Very scarce £215 Pakistan cricket team‟s tour of India Karachi; Asad Ali of Asad & Sons, 1954. A At the end of the tour, Australia played two very good copy in original cloth. £95 matches in Scotland, at Aberdeen and Edinburgh. The match publications are ex- 85. BUTT Q tremely hard to find. Playing for a Draw. Covering Paki- stan‟s Tour of India 1960-61 89. SOUVENIR BROCHURE. Scotland v Karachi; Jahaniasons, 1962. Original Australia at Mannofield, Aberdeen. stiffened wrappers, good. £80 Original wrappers, very good. Superb, large format, full colour brochure with much 86. BUTT, Q interesting content including a brief history of Sporting Wickets. Eye Witness Account the Aberdeenshire County Cricket Club. Rare of Tour of MCC and New Zealand to £550 Pakistan 1969 90. OFFICIAL SCORE CARD. Scotland v For the author, 1970. Original wrappers, Australians at Edinburgh, Sept 13, 14 bound in cloth, very good. Signed “With 4pp card signed neatly by the Scotland and compliments and best wishes to Mr Norman Australian XIs - Bradman, Barnes, Hamence, Preston. Qamaruddin Butt” £80 Johnson, Johnston, McCool, Miller, Morris, 87. BUTT, Q Ring, Saggers, Tallon. One horizontal fold Cricket Cat and Mouse. Australians‟ otherwise a good copy of a very rare item. Tour of Pakistan in 1959 £550 Original wrappers, very good. £65 11

Biography and Autobiography

91. HITCHIN, S W (Comp.) 95. DAVID HUNTER () 98. TENNYSON, L Biographical Sketch of Arthur Shrews- Reminiscences of David Hunter From Verse to Worse bury, the Famous Notts Cricketer The Genial Yorkshire Stumper Cassell, 1933. Original cloth, very good. Nottingham; for the compiler, 1890. A good Original wrappers, very good with chipping Beautifully inscribed “To Kate and Jack with copy, in original wrappers, spine expertly to edges of the frail wrappers, as usual (not all best wishes from Lionel Tennyson, June 4th, preserved. Formerly in the library of Karl shown in the illustration below). From the 1935”. £145 Auty with usual accession marks. Auty Collection with usual accession marks. 99. CONSTANTINE, L (illustrated below) £130 (illustrated below) £145 Cricket in the Sun 92. YARDLEY, W(Ed.) SIGNED COPIES Stanley Paul, 1946. DW, very good. Very The History of a Hundred Centuries, neatly inscribed (see below): “To Margaret written by W G Grace 96. MASON, R C and . Recalling a very happy friend- Upcott Gill, 1895. Original wrappers, spine : a portrait of an artist as a ship over many years and with my regards, expertly strengthened, a very good copy of great batsman , the Author. 3 Meredith St, a frail item. (illustrated below) £75 Hollis & Carter, 1960. DW (slightly worn), a Nelson, Lancs, Dec: 1946”. £120 very good copy. Signed by Ronald Mason 93. IREDALE, F and by Jack Hobbs. Rare to find this signed 33 Years of Cricket by the subject and the author. £145 Sydney; Beatty, Richardson, 1920. Original wrappers, a very good copy. Formerly in 97. FARNES, K the library of Karl Auty with usual accession Tours and Tests marks. (illustrated below) £160 Lutterworth Press, 1940. Original cloth, very good. Produced during the war, this book is 94. HOLMES, H E now quite scarce. Signed by Farnes neatly on J T Tyldesley in First-Class Cricket the end-paper “Good luck, May 1940”. Bury; Crompton, 1912. Original wrappers, Farnes was killed on active RAF flying duty fine copy of an ephemeral item. the year after. £165 (illustrated below) £185

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100. CONSTANTINE, L Cricketers‟ Carnival Stanley Paul, 1948. DW, very good. Very neatly inscribed by Constantine: “To M & S with the compliments and best wishes of the Author and family. Learie Constantine. Nel- son, Lancs, Xmas: 1948” £120 101. WOODS, S M J My Reminiscences. With personal appreciations by P F Warner and G L Jessop and a portrait Chapman & Hall, 1925. Second impression of the first edition, one month after publica- tion. Original cloth, some wear and marking to the linen but o/w good. Inscription July 1950 titled “Floreat Etona” from F G Halli- day. Half-title signed by Woods “Yrs V Sincerely Sam Woods”. Two original photo- graphs tipped in and labelled by Halliday: “Sam‟s last cricket match. Positively the last 103. WARNER, P F 104. FOSTER, F R appearance of S M J on the cricket field, Broadway, August, the year before his My Cricketing Life Cricketing Memories death”. A newspaper clipping inserted H&S, 1921. Signed Limited Edition of 200 London, 1920. A fine copy in original cloth regarding the annual match at Broadway copies. Luxurious white decorative cloth, in with decorative front cover. between Lord Portman‟s XI and the local club fine condition. (illustrated below) £185 (illustrated above) £50 reports that never missed this fixture in his declining years and that Captain Fred Halliday of the Tudor Cottage, SIGNED BY THE 1930 AUSTRALIANS Broadway “once again dispensed hospitality 105. GRIMMETT, C V to all and sundry”. Getting Wickets (illustrated above right) £250 H&S, 1930. Original cloth, dw worn with 102. LORD HARRIS some loss. First Edition. Half title clearly A Few Short Runs signed by Grimmett, Kippax, McCabe, V Murray, 1921. Original cloth, worn to Richardson, Woodfull, Oldfield, Jackson, edges. Bookplate of Judge Bertram a’Beckett, Wall, Hornibrook, Fairfax, Pons- Wakley, a noted collector. Comes with a ford and Bradman. Some foxing but this printed card in original envelope, post- hardly detracts from a wonderful item. marked Feb 5, 1932. “Lord Harris thanks £350 you very much for your kindly remembrance of 106. OLDFIELD, W H st him on his 81 Birthday and regrets that ow- The Rattle of the Stumps ing to his illness he is unable to reply person- Newnes, 1954. DW, very good. Boldly ally”. Belmont, Faversham letterhead. Also, inscribed “To Colonel Barney Oldfield in ap- a hand-written note by Harris, dated Feb 4, preciation of your generous gift “Never a nicely signed “Thank you so much, Har- Shot in Anger" from such an esteemed author. ris”. Again Belmont address. Lord Harris Welcome to Sydney to you and your Dear died only a month or so after the 1932 note. Wife and please come back soon. From Bert £155 Oldfield, 13/11/1956”. £95

13 BOUNDARY BOOKS

107. MARTINEAU, H M PRIMARY SOURCE BOOKS ON 19TH My Life in Sport CENTURY CRICKETERS Privately printed at the Water Martin Press, 1970. Original cloth, very good. A scarce 110. PULLIN, A W (“Old Ebor”) account by a fascinating man. He ran his Talks With Old English Cricketers own Country House team and ground at Edinburgh, 1900. Original decorative cloth, Holyport including a game with the 1926 a good copy. Fascinating series of inter- Australians. Every year from 1929 to 1939 views with nineteenth century cricketers such he took his own team - of first-class standard as and . - on tour to Egypt. For many years he was (illustrated below) £90 President of the St Moritz Bobsleigh Club and was a leading light in the development 111. CAFFYN, W of skating as a sport. Full scores of all his Seventy-one ; the Reminis- team‟s matches and many photos. cences of ; edited by A high quality book £185 “Mid-on” (illustrated below) 108. STRICKLAND, H & NELSON, R Blackwood, 1899. Original boards, a fine copy. According to A.D. Taylor, the book was IGNED BY OLMES AND UTCLIFFE R P Nelson. Memoir ghosted by A.J. Gaston but “Mid-on” is gen- S H S For the authors, 1955. Original card covers, erally regarded as being R P Daft. £80 ribbon, a fine copy. Signed by R Nelson to 114. DUCKWORTH, L J D Bentham. Bookplate of Anthony Wood- 112. BETTESWORTH, W A Holmes & Sutcliffe. The Run Stealers house. Nelson played for Middlesex and Chats on the Cricket Field Cricketer/Hutchinson, 1970. Original cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy. Signed to the title captained Northants. He was killed in the See item 5, page 1 (illustrated below) war at the age of 28. £55 page by Percy Holmes and to FFE by Herbert 113. HORDERN, H V Sutcliffe. Very few copies are signed in full 109. ROOT, F Googlies: Coals from a Test-cricketer‟s and this copy is highly collectable. A Cricket Pro‟s Lot fireplace; illustrated by Tom Glover (illustrated above) £275 Arnold, 1937. DW, very good. “With all the Sydney; Angus & Robertson, 1932. This is very best to John, Fred Root. Lord’s 1948”. 115. LORD HAWKE the second edition, produced just 2 weeks Recollections and Reminiscences This was John Arlott‟s copy. after the first. Original cloth, foxing to (illustrated top right) £110 London, 1924. Original decorative cloth, a edges but otherwise very good and pre- very good copy. Large attractive book by served in a fine and colourful dust jacket the father of Yorkshire cricket. (illustrated below) £125 (illustrated below) £45

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116. HOBBS, J B My Cricket Memories London, 1924. Fine copy, First Edition in scarce, well-preserved dust jacket. (illustrated opposite) £95 117. NORTHLING, J W From “Last” to “Lords”. Incidents during the career of G P Harrison the old county cricketer For the author, (1934) Original card covers, good. Signed “G P Harrison, January 1, 1937”. Harrison played for Yorkshire taking 100 wickets on debut in 1883. £220 118. GRUNDY, W F Letters of Acknowledgment of the Memento of and and gilt, a fine copy. Inscribed by the 123. GEORGE LAMBERT (Gloucestershire) Alfred Shaw author on the end-papers and signed in full Benefit Souvenir Card 1955 Nottingham, C H Richards, 1910. Original at the end of the book. This is the harrowing 4pp card in fine condition £40 wraps, a fine copy. This is exceptionally story of 4 brothers who all fought in the scarce and a copy was not seen by Padwick. Great War, two of them losing their lives. 124. (Glouc & England) (illustrated right) £650 By the time their father came to write this Benefit Souvenir. Glos v Hampshire, account all 4 had died and he dedicates the , Aug 4, 1934. 119. RICHARDS, C H book to his grandchildren. One of the four The Famous Cricketer . Achievements and records of the was Egerton Lowndes Wright – or “Toddy” – world‟s best all-rounder C H Richards, 1921. Original wrappers, who was an accomplished cricketer. Original card covers, good. Signed to the very good with chipping to edges of the frail A century for Winchester at Lord‟s; a blue in front cover by Hammond and to the title page wrappers, as usual (not shown in illustration, all 4 of his years at Oxford (1905-08). A by 13 of Gloucestershire – Parker, Allen, above right). From the Auty Collection with batsman and wicket-keeper, he also made Sinfield, Hammond, Dacre, Lyon, Page, Bar- usual accession markings. £150 four appearances for , the county nett, Goddard etc. of his birth, between 1905 and 1910. 120. HUMPHREY, Rev W H (illustrated below) £275 While most of the book is taken up with the George Herbert Hirst and Wilfred Rho- story of the war, there is a section on des. A Record of Cricket Achievement Toddy‟s sporting achievements – complete ; Broadbent, 1937. Original with photos – and the book surely deserves wrappers, slightly soiled but contents very a place in Padwick. Presumably produced in good. Scarce £125 limited numbers for the family, this volume must be considered very rare indeed. PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN £350 121. E L WRIGHT BENEFIT BROCHURES (Lancashire C C C, 1905-1910) Four Brothers and the World War . The 122. ARTHUR JEPSON (Notts) Private Record of their Father for his Benefit Souvenir 1951 Grandchildren by Henry Lowndes Original card covers, a fine copy. Attrac- Wright. tively signed to Autographs page by 12 of Printed for Private Circulation, Hove, Notts including Simpson, Butler, Harris, Hard- Combridges, 1933. Original half cloth/cloth staff, Jepson, Meads, Harvey, Poole etc. (illustrated above right) £110 15

County and Club Cricket

131. PIPER, W J Surrey History of the Derbyshire County 125. THE SURREY TEAM IN 1888 128. GASTON, A J Cricket Club Derby Daily Telegraph, 1897 (as printed on Complete Scores of all Matches Played Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923-5 title page, actually 1899). Original boards, Southern Publishing Company, 1924. with full page Portraits and Short Bio- slightly worn to extremities, nicely re- Original wrappers, an unusually fine copy. graphical Sketches of each member etc backed, ink stain to bottom of last fifty This is the third edition, published Feb 25, Office of “Cricket”, 1889. Original wrap- pages - overall a good copy. This is the 1924. Signed presentation copy by Gaston. pers, re-backed, very good copy of a frail rarer second edition which brings the story item. Full scores and statistics of all matches (illustrated below) £95 up to 1898 and has an additional 52pp plus detailed two-page biographies and a 129. CHEESMAN, W E F compared to the first edition. This copy is full page engraved portrait for each player. Hastings Cricket as written for the particularly interesting being the working Better than a county yearbook £130 copy of the late Frank Peach, the County‟s Hastings Conference June 1937 main archivist. It contains numerous annota- 126. HOLMES, Rev R S Hastings; for the author, 1937. Original tions expanding on and correcting the cloth, a fine copy. A very scarce booklet. Surrey Cricket and Cricketers records. A unique and invaluable source for 1773 to 1895 £145 anyone interested in the history of the Club London; Offices of “Cricket”, 1896. 130. SQUIRE, H F & SQUIRE, A P and its statistics. £245 Original wrappers, a very good copy of a scarce item, with the original spine frail but Henfield Cricket and its Sussex Cradle 132. ELIOTT, E & THORNHILL, T (Eds) Hove, Combridges, 1949. DW very good. intact. (illustrated below) £150 The Derbyshire Cricket Annual for An excellent history of this ancient Sussex Season 1885 127. HENLEY, H J club. One of the cornerstones of eighteenth Bewley & Roe, 1886. Signature of ownership century cricket research. £45 All About Surrey Cricket. of Rev R S Holmes, Wakefield, 3/6/91. Cricket Guide 1922 Bookplate of Anthony Woodhouse. Larby, 1922. Original wraps, Bound in linen with frail original adverts fine copy. Issue for 1923 also pages archivally preserved £225 available. (illustrated below) £65 ea 133. GRAY, G J The Cambridge University Cricket Calendar 1890 Metcalfe & Co, 1891. Original card covers, expertly re-backed. An elabo- rate production with full scores of all the matches in 1890 – first-class, college, vacation etc. £75 134. BOLTON, G History of the OUCC (Oxford University Cricket Club) Holywell Press, 1962. A fine copy in the scarce DW. Definitive history, a substantial volume. £45

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140. EGDELL, G W & FRASER, M F K Scarce Nottinghamshire Items Warwickshire County Cricket Club A History 135. SUTTON, A K 136. BROWNE, E Cornish Bros, 1946. Original cloth in fine Nottingham Cricket Matches, from A Short History of Nottinghamshire original dust jacket. Inscribed in Fraser‟s 1771 to 1865; with an introductory Cricket, including the season of 1887 hand-writing “With the joint authors‟ regards chapter, descriptive of the local history Printed by Geo Richards, Nottingham, 1887. and respex to John Arlott”. Nicely signed by of the game; and brief sketches of the Original cloth, very good. Formerly in the both authors. £95 Auty collection, with usual accession markings principal players 141. COOK, R F W . £175 Nottingham; A K Sutton, 1865. Original Lancashire CCC v Yorkshire CCC 1849- wrappers, very good except for corner 1964 neatly trimmed off front wrapper and some 137. RICHARDS, C H Leeds; for the author, (1965). Original dog-earing to early pages. wrappers, a fine copy. Number 33 of a Bound with: Fifty Years of Nottinghamshire Cricket, SPYBEY, F G 1838-1887, Being Vols 1 and 2 of Limited Edition of 100 copies. £55 Nottingham County Cricket Matches Notts Cricket Scores and Biographies 142. POWELL-JONES, H E Geo Richards, Nottingham, 1890. Original from 1865 to 1877 Famous Cricket Clubs cloth, very good. 388pp, errata on last Nottingham, Spybey, 1878. Original wrap- Deane & Sons, 1929. Original stiffened page. Full of interest. Includes a sepia, pers preserved, a fine copy. wrappers, very good. A charming period carte-de-visite size real photograph of the Both volumes bound together making a piece, very well illustrated with original pho- Eleven 1866. Alone, this photo would be a continuous story from 1771 to 1877. Old tographs. Chapters on all the famous clubs - prized and rare item. Ex-Auty Collection half-leather binding, re-backed. Inside the MCC, IZ. Free Foresters, Butterflies, Incogs, with usual accession numbers to end-papers front board is the bookplate of J Bonnyman Band of Brothers, Harlequins, Quidnuncs, and spine. (illustrated below left) Jones, collector of cricket books. Also hand- Yellowhammers etc £25 written is “Formerly RH Mallett‟s copy £175 (Mallett – MCC Member and Manager of 138. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY 143. SWINDELLS, T MCC & West Indies XI‟s)”. Indeed, he did CRICKET ANNUAL 1907 Lancashire County Cricket Records manage the 1928 West Indies tour to UK. Being a continuation of “Notts Scores 1865 to 1908 On the recto of the front free end-paper is Altrincham; Artistic Printing Co, 1909. 94pp, & Biographies”. Championship Year, neatly written “Mr E Browne with C H Rich- original boards, a very good copy. ards’ Compliments”. Presumably this was 1907. Compiled by C H Richards Extremely scarce little booklet. Nottingham, C H Richards, 1913. Original presented to E Browne, the other early Notts Illustrated below £235 historian, by C H Richards the producer of so wrappers, a fine copy. many Notts booklets by Ashley-Cooper and Illustrated below £120 others. A nice association copy of two very scarce items. £750 139. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET ANNUAL 1913 Being a continuation of C H Richards‟ “Notts Scores & Biographies” Nottingham, C H Richards, 1913. Original wrappers, a fine copy. £120

17 BOUNDARY BOOKS Scarce Kent Items

144. KENT C C C 148. KENT C C C The Kentish Cricketers‟ Guide All About Kent Cricket 1914 Season 1890 In commemoration of the County‟s Maidstone; Burgiss-Brown, 1890. Original 4th Championship. limp cloth, a fine copy of a very rare item. Watford; Blower Bros, 1914. Second edi- Signatures of ownership of three distinguished tion. Original wrappers, a fine copy. This former collectors – Rev R S Holmes, C I S item only appeared in the years 1911 and Wallace and H W Warner. 1914 £160 (illustrated below) £500 149. TOPLIS, J & MATTOCKS, C 145. E MILTON SMALL The Royal and Ancient City of The Cricket Week, its Canterbury Guide and Souvenir for Origin, Career and Jubilee 1842-1891 Cricket Week, 1920 Jennings, 1891. Original wrappers, some Canterbury; Cross & Jackman, 1920. old clear tape to top and bottom of spine Original wrappers, a fine copy. 32pp. but overall a very good copy. Contains a programme for the week includ- (illustrated below right) £80 ing the cricket and theatrical events. Not in Padwick and extremely difficult to procure. 146. RICHARDSON, J S (illustrated right) £345 Some Notes on Cricket and the Vine Cricket Ground 150. TONBRIDGE CRICKET WEEK 1925 Sevenoaks; Salmon, 1909. Original wrap- Official Programme of Events pers, a fine copy £145 Tonbridge Free Press, 1925. Original wrappers, a fine copy. Cricket and enter- 147. KENT C C C tainments for the week. An attractive little All About Kent Cricket 1911 booklet. Not in Padwick and considered Watford; Blower Bros, 1911. Original very rare. (illustrated below) £345 wrappers, a good copy with clear tape to spine. (illustrated below) £150

18 COUNTY AND CLUB CRICKET

151. LANCASHIRE CCC 154. SANTALL, S Diamond Jubilee Souvenir 1864-1924 Warwickshire as a First-Class Manchester Guardian, 1924. Original County. A Complete Record stiffened wrappers, good. Delightful of the team‟s performances in booklet, in quarto format, with articles on the „Johnny Briggs‟ and „Old Trafford‟ by Neville and other matches 1894-1903 Cardus, writing as “Cricketer”. For the author, 1904. Original (illustrated below) £55 limp cloth, fine copy. From the Auty Collection, signed by the au- thor “K A Auty Esq from Sydney Santall 1947” (illustrated far right) £140 155. HAMPSHIRE C C C The Hampshire Cricketers‟ Guide 1890 For the Club, 1890. Original limp cloth, very 158. TAYLOR, A D good. Pencil annotations to the diary section Cheltenham Cricket Week. A Review (illustrated above right) £390 of the Games from 1878 to 1905, together with a brief outline etc 156. EVANS, B & GRIFFIN, J B Cheltenham Newspaper Co, 1906. Original The History of the Walsall Cricket Club wrappers, a very good copy with small Griffin, 1904. Original cloth, an exception- piece missing from bottom corner of rear ally fine copy of a very scarce history. Well wrapper. Hard to find this frail item in its illustrated and detailed history. £110 original state. (illustrated below) £265 152. LANCASHIRE CCC 157. PAYNE, J B Worcester County Cricket Club. Offi- 100 Years of Cricket 1864-1964 For the Club, 1964. Large format, DW, very cial History & Guide 1928 good. A very attractive production with For the Club, 1928. Original stiffened much early history and a good selection of wrappers, a fine copy. Bookplate of photographs - including one of the scorebook Anthony Woodhouse. £250 page for MacLaren‟s 424. £20 153. BRADFIELD, D The Lansdown Story. A History of Lansdown Cricket Club For the Club, 1971. A very good copy in original cloth with slightly worn dust jacket. A thoroughly well researched history of the Club which was virtually founded by Rev James Pycroft and who were famously - tained by E M Grace. This copy is signed by the author and has the signed book plate of Pryce Norman who played for the Club in 1946, and is further signed by 27 of the current players and officials at the time of publication. An interesting association copy of a worthy book. £40 19 BOUNDARY BOOKS

159. COLDHAM, J D 162. LORD ALVERSTONE & ALCOCK, C W Northamptonshire v Yorkshire. Surrey Cricket: Its History and At The Wicket, 1908-1960 Associations Woking; for the author, 1960. Original Longmans Green, 1902. Original cloth, very wrappers, very good. Number 8 of a good. The First Edition (a cheaper version signed Limited Edition of 25 copies. John was produced 3 years later). Massive and Arlott‟s copy with TLS from Coldham to Arlott authoritative volume, 539pp, that set the loosely inserted: “twenty of which were for standard for all future county histories. sale. These were sold quickly through the Major contributions from F S Ashley-Cooper, good offices of Mr Leslie Gutteridge.” C W Alcock, E B V Christian and others. (illustrated below) £ 295 £105

163. SIEVWRIGHT, W

Historical Sketch of the Perth Cricket

Club (The Premier Club of Scotland)

from its origin in 1826-27 till 1879

Barlas, 1880. Original cloth, a very good copy of a scarce item. Sepia photographic frontispiece of the 1876 team has had the players identifications neatly inked in. 164. GUSTARD, F J C (illustrated below) £185 Somerset County Cricket Facts and Figures from 1891 to 1924 Barnicott & Pearce, 1925. Original

wrappers, an unusually fine copy.

(illustrated above) £110

165. NORMAN, P (Compiler) Scores and Annals of the West Kent Cricket Club originally the Prince‟s Plain Club 160. GIMSON, J R, RUSSELL, B W N, & Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897. Original half- WADDINGTON, R G bound cloth with fine gilt, frontispiece loose The Leicester Ivanhoe Cricket Club but otherwise a very good copy from the 1873 - 1923 Auty Library with usual accession markings. Johnson, Wykes & Paine, 1923. Original A large and detailed book, full of interest on cloth, a very good copy. With the original early Kent cricket - Benjamin Aislabie, Jubilee Dinner Menu, June 1st, 1923, 4pp Herbert Jenner-Fust, the Sevenoaks Vine club plus wrappers, neatly tipped in the back inside and others. An underestimated volume, cover. £40 worth its place in any historical collection and very attractive with good sepia photo- 161. ORMEROD, G W graphs. This copy has the ownership signature Annals of the Teignbridge Cricket of “J Lubbock, June 1897”. The Lubbocks Club, 1823-1883 were a distinguished family of 8 brothers Plymouth; privately printed, 1888. Original who all went to Eton. Three of them played cloth, a very good copy from the Auty first-class cricket for Kent in the 1860s and Library with usual accession markings. 70s. All were closely associated with the Signature of ownership of the Earl of Belmore. West Kent club and more than one had the An impressive and scarce volume. £95 initial “J”. (illustrated left) £135 20