THE EXCELSIOR PICTORIAL POST CARD BUDGET. PORTRAITS OF THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TEAM WHO BROUGHT HOME THE "ASHES". London, (The Oval, Albert Craig, 1904). Small 8vo. Four original postcard photographs, preserved in original printed folder. Good condition. Individual postcards of members of the 1903-04 MCC tour of Australia. This was the first overseas cricket tour sponsored by MCC. Albert Craig (1850-1909), was known as The Surrey Rhymester or The Surrey Poet and sold his cards and poems at various cricket grounds. See Laughton, Captain of the Crowd, 2008, page 282. Padwick, 4427. [ref: 28700] £200.00 enquire buy |
THE EXCELSIOR PICTORIAL POST CARD BUDGET. PORTRAITS OF THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM, 1905. (no place), A.C., Cricket Rhymester, (1905). Small 8vo. Four original perforated postcard photographs. Original printed wrappers. Good condition. Albert Craig (1850-1909), was known as The Surrey Rhymester or The Surrey Poet and sold his cards and poems at various cricket grounds. See Laughton, Captain of the Crowd, 2008, page 282. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937, page 86. Not recorded by Padwick. [ref: 56418] £200.00 enquire buy |
THE RUN OUT. Glasgow, 1985. 8vo. 223pp. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Cricket fiction. [ref: 15049] £8.00 enquire buy |
THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM 1967 RED SOX: BIRTH OF RED SOX NATION. New Jersey, Summer Game Books, 2016. 8vo. xiii+285pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. An account of the 1967 Major League Baseball season, when the Boston Red Sox overcame 100/1 odds to win the World Series. [ref: 79149] £18.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
NEVER TURN THE OTHER CHEEK. London, HarperSport, 2007. 8vo. xiii+290pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Autobiography of the Manchester United, Celtic and Scotland footballer Paddy Crerand. [ref: 81790] £9.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
A STORY OF SCHOOL LIFE AND ADVENTURE. London, (c.1900). 8vo. 64pp. Original pictorial wrappers depicting boys fighting with cricket stumps, covers soiled and worn. Cricket fiction. Number 9 in The Nugget Library. Not recorded by Padwick. [ref: 56836] £15.00 enquire buy |
VOLUME IV, NOS 80-109 INCLUSIVE. COMPLETE WITH TITLE-PAGE AND INDEX. London, 1885. 4to. Profusely illustrated. Rebound in cloth. Good condition. Fourth year of publication. The first periodical to deal exclusively with cricket. Founded in 1882 by C.W. Alcock, Cricket, A Weekly Record of the Game was published from 1882 until 1913. In 1914 a final volume was published, edited by A.C. MacLaren, renamed: The World of Cricket. Altham, History of Cricket, 1926, page 383: 'An almost inexhaustible mine of historical information, and a complete contemporary record.' Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906: 'Cricket enjoys the distinction of being the only paper in the world solely devoted to the game.' Padwick, 1183. [ref: 54246] £75.00 enquire buy |
VOLUME V, NOS 110-139 INCLUSIVE. COMPLETE WITH TITLE-PAGE AND INDEX. London, 1886. 4to. Profusely illustrated. Rebound in cloth. Fifth year of publication. The first periodical to deal exclusively with cricket. Founded in 1882 by C.W. Alcock, Cricket, A Weekly Record of the Game was published from 1882 until 1913. In 1914 a final volume was published, edited by A.C. MacLaren, renamed: The World of Cricket. Altham, History of Cricket, 1926, page 383: 'An almost inexhaustible mine of historical information, and a complete contemporary record.' Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906: 'Cricket enjoys the distinction of being the only paper in the world solely devoted to the game.' Padwick, 1183. [ref: 15103] £75.00 enquire buy |
VOLUME VI, NOS 140-169 INCLUSIVE. COMPLETE WITH TITLE-PAGE AND INDEX. London, 1887. 4to. 476pp. Profusely illustrated. Rebound in cloth. Sixth year of publication. The first periodical to deal exclusively with cricket. Founded in 1882 by C.W. Alcock, Cricket, A Weekly Record of the Game was published from 1882 until 1913. In 1914 a final volume was published, edited by A.C. MacLaren, renamed: The World of Cricket. Altham, History of Cricket, 1926, page 383: 'An almost inexhaustible mine of historical information, and a complete contemporary record.' Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906: 'Cricket enjoys the distinction of being the only paper in the world solely devoted to the game.' Padwick, 1183. [ref: 15107] £75.00 enquire buy |
VOLUME VII, NOS. 170-199 INCLUSIVE. COMPLETE WITH TITLE-PAGE AND INDEX. London, 1888. 4to. Profusely illustrated. Rebound in cloth. Seventh year of publication. The first periodical to deal exclusively with cricket. Founded in 1882 by C.W. Alcock, Cricket, A Weekly Record of the Game was published from 1882 until 1913. In 1914 a final volume was published, edited by A.C. MacLaren, renamed: The World of Cricket. Altham, History of Cricket, 1926, page 383: 'An almost inexhaustible mine of historical information, and a complete contemporary record.' Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906: 'Cricket enjoys the distinction of being the only paper in the world solely devoted to the game.' Padwick, 1183. [ref: 68677] £75.00 enquire buy |
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