Sunday 11th July 2021 10.30am CRICKET BOOKS (PART TWO), FOOTBALL & SPORTING MEMORABILIA CRICKET BOOKS 1203 ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S. gilt title to spine. Original wrappers Part two Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limited retained. Padwick 2696. Very good edition of 350 copies signed by condition. Rare £120/160 1201 ‘Arlott & Ackroyd: A celebration Ranjitsinhji, this being number 86. of cricket, wine, poetry and place’. 1208 ‘The Surrey Eleven in 1895. A Hand made paper, top edge gilt, With a commentary by David Descriptive Record of the Matches other edges untrimmed. Original Rayvern Allen. Published in 2002 Played in that Season’. James L. board covers. Staining and ageing by Christopher Saunders, Newnham McCance. Merritt & Hatcher, London to boards, bumping to corners, on Severn. Leather bound limited 1896. 60pp Bound in modern green frontispiece bookplate neatly edition number 208 of 295 books cloth, original decorative paper detached, otherwise internally in produced, signed by Norman wrappers retained. Pages complete. good/ very good condition Ackroyd and David Rayvern Allen Padwick 2687. Good/ very good £230/260 to limitation label to inside front condition. Rare £120/160 board. In the pocket at the front is an 1204 ‘The Australian Cricketers’ Team for 1209 F.W. Lillywhite ‘Lillywhite’s Illustrated accompanying signed and numbered 1896 with biographies and portraits Hand-book of Cricket containing etching of a portrait of Arlott by of the players...’. Published by Portraits of Pilch, Box, A. Mynn, C. Ackroyd, together with an unsigned George Howe, London 1896, second Taylor, Lillywhite, Cobbett, Langdon, reproduction of the same etching. edition. Original paper wrappers, Kynaston. Also, The Laws of Cricket, VG £120/160 tipped in to modern blue cloth. and other useful information’. Edited Padwick 4981, although this second John Arlott was the best loved by ‘A Cantab’. London 1844. Bound edition not recorded. Light wear and cricket commentator of the 20th in later tan cloth covers, original age toning, otherwise in good/ very century, but he was also a renowned wrappers retained. 22pp plus good condition. Rare £300/500 collector and lover of books, wine, adverts. The book was published in poetry and prints. Norman Ackroyd 1205 ‘The Eleventh Australian Tour three versions, one with an engraved (RA) is Britain’s best known etcher. 1902. Particulars of the team, portrait of Lillywhite, a second with He is also a lover of wine and poetry portraits and biographies of all the portraits of four Players, the third and an enthusiastic cricketer. This players’. Published at the ‘Cricket’ with portraits of four Players and book matches eleven of Ackroyd’s Office, London 1902. Original four Gentlemen. This version has the etchings with appropriate pieces paper wrappers with portrait of Joe portrait of Lillywhite. Bookplate of of Arlott’s prose and poetry. It has Darling, captain of the Australians, J.W. Goldman to inside front cover a commentary by David Rayvern to front cover. Tipped in to modern and handwritten note in pencil in Allen, old friend of Norman Ackroyd blue cloth. Owner’s name annotated Goldman’s hand, ‘Epworth £8/8- and Arlott’s acclaimed biographer in ink to front cover, H.R. Johnson, Nov 1955’. Padwick 386. Some Willesden and dated ‘May 1902’. foxing/ staining to the engraving, 1202 ‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. Previously in the collection of H.A. otherwise in very good condition ‘Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe’ Cohen with the sale plate of Cohen £200/300 edition bound in black half leather, laid down to the inside front cover of top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. 1210 ‘The Cricket Field or The History and the boards. Padwick 4996. G/VG Original black boards with gilt the Science of Cricket’. J. Pycroft. £200/300 lettering, somewhat worn. Limited Boston 1859. Rare first American de luxe edition of 652 numbered 1206 ‘The Australian Cricket Team, 1909’. edition. 238pp plus advertisements. copies, signed by the author Grace, H.V.L. Stanton (“Wanderer”). Original green cloth with maroon this being no. 512. Spine expertly Published at ‘The Sportsman Offices’, spine. Gilt emblem to front, printed replaced with original end papers London 1909. 47pp pre-tour title label laid to spine. Bookplates retained. some rubbing to board brochure comprising an article of Francis Colgate Benson to inside extremities, otherwise a nice copy in by Wanderer, fixture list, player front cover, W.J. Hole to front good/ very good condition biographies, sketch portraits etc. endpaper, and The C. Christopher £250/350 Original decorative colour wrappers, Morris Cricket Library, Haverford the front featuring a kangaroo at College, ‘presented by W.J. Hole’ to Subscriber number 512 was the wicket brandishing a bat, with a inside rear cover. Padwick 394. Front Wilberforce Hamer of Edgeware roaring lion wicketkeeper. Bound in endpaper detached and trimmed. Road, Blackburn. Hamer was a modern blue cloth. Padwick 5008. A Repairs to internal hinges, slight committee member of Lancashire very good copy £300/400 breaking to page block, otherwise in C.C.C. and for many years captained good condition £150/250 East Lancashire C.C. He also played 1207 ‘The Surrey Team in 1888. Complete football for Blackburn Rovers with scores of all matches played, with full The frontispiece wood-engraving of the famous Lancashire and England page portraits and short biographical ‘The Bowler’, William Clarke, differs Test cricketer, A.N. Hornby. Hamer sketches’. Office of ‘Cricket’, London to that in the English editions, and died in 1907 aged 44 1889. Bound in modern green cloth, there is no ‘batsman’ plate. The 90 91 ‘Preface to the American edition’ of Cricketters[sic]...’ Thomas Boxall. Cricket Clubs’ announcing the gives an account of Clarke’s career London: Harrild and Billing, c.1802. publication of and to seek subscribers by William H. Bray. Second edition, second issue, of the to the ‘special edition’. Tipped in to first practical treatise on the game, modern green cloth. Some foxing, Francis Colgate Benson (1898-1962) two parts in one volume, the second otherwise in good condition. Qty 5 was the author of ‘Songs of part containing the laws. 92pp. with £250/350 the Cricket Field’ published in ‘A part of the Subscribers’ page Philadelphia in 1932 1215 ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the inserted between pp.vi and 7. The Game’. Volume XI. Numbers 290-319 1211 ‘The Rose, containing Original Poems folding frontispiece engraving, title (28th January to 29th December for Young People’. Mary Elliott. First page and pp 11/12 are facsimile 1892). Complete with title-page and edition, Willliam Darton, London copies on aged paper. Contem- contents page to front. Illustrated. 1824. Printed by G. Smallfield, porary brown calf/ marbled boards. Bound in green half leather, with Hackney. The frontispiece comprises Ownership name in ink to front title in gilt to spine. Includes pictorial two illustrations, one depicting a endpaper of ‘James Newman, Shipley supplements of the ‘English Cricket cricket scene of a match in play, the July 3 1817’. Contained in a modern Team on Tour, South Africa 1891-2’ bowler preparing to bowl underarm, box. Padwick 373. Some creasing to dated 12th May 1892, ‘Surrey Team with reference to a poem on pp covers, otherwise in good condition 1892’ (28th July), ‘Yorkshire Eleven 24/25 in six stanzas, titled ‘Cricket’. with expert restoration. Rare 1892’ (11th August), ‘The Middlesex Rebound in later brown leather and £1000/1500 County Eleven 1892’, (18th August), marbled boards, gilt title to spine. 1214 ‘Bat v Ball. The Book of Individual ‘The Nottingham Team 1892’ (25th VG £200/300 Cricket Records, &c. 1864-1900’. August), G.A. Lohmann (27th 1212 ‘Poems’. Thomas Smith. Privately Compiled by J.H. Lester. Boots October), and ‘Somerset v Norfshire published, printed by John Such, Wholesale Printing and Stationery [sic]’ (24th November). Wear to London 1867 for private circulation. Department, Nottingham and board and spine extremities, slight Bound in maroon morocco with London 1900. Four different editions breaking to internal hinges, odd nicks ornate gilt decoration and title to of the title including the scarce to internal pages, otherwise in very front and spine. Gilt to page edges. ‘Edition de luxe’. Editions are the good condition. Rare to see full page Includes two poems on cricket, ‘The pictorial ‘strongly bound in cloth’ supplements within a bound volume Cricket Match. A poem in two cantos’ edition with handwritten dedication £60/90 pp 199-218 containing references in ink to title page ‘To J.W. Goldman, 1216 Cricket in Asia. Five books and to ‘Felix’ and his ‘Catapulta’, and with the compliments & kind regards tour guides relating to India and ‘The Origin of Cricket. Sung at the of A.W. Shelton’, dated 23rd May Pakistan cricket. Titles are ‘Rivals in Opening Dinner of the Surrey Cricket May 1937. Goldman’s bookplate to the Sun’, Raju Bharatan, Bombay Club’ pp 254-257. Facing the title inside front cover. Publisher’s note on 1952. Rebound in blue cloth. page is a small original photograph page v indicates an ‘Edition de luxe... ‘Pakistan Cricket on the March’, laid down of the author, signed in is being arranged for’. The scarce Qamaruddin Butt, Karachi 1957. ink below, ‘Yours faithfully Thos. ‘Edition de luxe’ is handsomely bound Green cloth covers. Some splitting Smith’. Presentation copy with in black calf with marbled endpapers, to spine block. ‘Glorious Battle. India dedication in ink to front endpaper gilt to page edges, gilt title to front vs Pakistan (1979-80)’, Sudhir Talati, to C.G. Hale Esq. ‘with the author’s cover and spine with raised bands to Ahmedabad 1980. Decorative paper compliments’, dated 21st November spine. Owner’s name in ink to front wrappers. ‘The Hindu’ souvenir tour 1867.