THE SATURDAY MATCH. ILLUSTRATED BY J.H. THORPE. London, 1937. 8vo. 256pp. Text illustrations. Original cloth, covers soiled. Cricket fiction, in which a boy is invited to play in a big match. Padwick, 5933. [ref: 27158] £15.00 enquire buy |
YOU'RE A HOOKER, THEN. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Edinburgh, Mainstream, 1987. Large 8vo. 208pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title. Autobiography of the Scotland and British Lions rugby union captain Colin Deans. Jenkins, A Rugby Compendium, 1998: C57. [ref: 65485] £14.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
THE OPEN MAN. A CHAMPIONSHIP DIARY. EDITED BY PAUL D. ZIMMERMAN AND DICK SCHAAP. New York, Maddick Manuscipts, 1970. 8vo. (10)+275pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. A diary of the 1969-70 NBA season by Dave DeBusschere of the New York Knickerbockers. [ref: 79442] £35.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
DURHAM. BIRTH OF A FIRST-CLASS COUNTY. London, 1992. Large 8vo. 183pp. 16 coloured illustrations. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. A history of Durham County Cricket Club. Published to commemorate their elevation to first-class status. [ref: 15483] £8.00 enquire buy |
MY PARTNER, BEN HOGAN London, Peter Davies, 1954 8vo. (6)+214pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Recollections of the golfer Ben Hogan by the golfer Jimmy Demaret. [ref: 76095] £65.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
A COMPLETE SET OF FACSIMILE REPRINTS OF ALL SIX EDITIONS OF DENISON'S CRICKETERS' COMPANION, FOR THE YEARS 1843, 1843 (SECOND EDITION), 1844, 1845, 1846 AND 1847. TOGETHER WITH A FACSIMILE REPRINT OF DENISON'S SKETCHES OF THE PLAYERS, first published in 1846. TOGETHER WITH A VOLUME OF COMMENTARY ON EACH EDITION, TITLED: THE ESSENTIAL DENISON BY DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN. 8vo. 206pp. Folding frontispiece, three folding plates and other text illustrations. Newnham on Severn, 2008. Seven volumes. 8vo. (Six volumes in wrappers, one volume in cloth). Preserved in a handsome quarter morocco drop-back box, in cloth slipcase. Good condition. LIMITED EDITION of 212 numbered sets, SIGNED BY J.M. BREARLEY (then President of MCC). Facsimile reprints of all seven of these scarce cricket books by William Denison, together with a new commentary and history of them by David Rayvern Allen. (This set was published in 2008 at £450). [ref: 51418] £200.00 enquire buy |
I DECLARE. London, 1977. 8vo. 162pp. 12 plates. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. Autobiography of the Kent and England batsman Mike Denness. Padwick, 7482-1. [ref: 37954] £20.00 enquire buy |
I DECLARE. London, 1977. 8vo. 162pp. 12 plates. Original cloth in slightly chipped dust-wrapper. Autobiography of the Kent and England batsman Mike Denness. Padwick, 7482-1. [ref: 42410] £8.00 enquire buy |
MOUNTAINEERING. London, Longmans, Green, 1892. Large 8vo. viii+481pp. Illustrated. Original publisher's half morocco, top edges gilt, edges untrimmed. Good condition. LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION of 250 numbered copies. A volume in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. [ref: 39276] £90.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
An original colour lithograph of David Denton batting by A. Chevallier Tayler. From The Empire's Cricketers. Good condition. [together with]: a page of biographical text by G.W. Beldam. London, published by The Fine Arts Society, 1905. Denton played for Yorkshire between 1894 and 1920, and for England between 1905 and 1910. [ref: 12617] £65.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
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