POST PADWICK: THE GIBBS EXTENSION OF PADWICK'S BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1990-2006. COMPILED BY STEPHEN GIBBS. Sydney, the Compiler, 2008. 4to. viii+628pp. Text illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Lower corner of front wrapper creased. LIMITED EDITION of 120 numbered copies, SIGNED BY THE COMPILER. Details of over seven thousand cricket books published since Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket in 1984 and Padwick II in 1991. [ref: 46547] £120.00 enquire buy |
THE GIBBS GUIDE TO ITEMS 'NOT IN PADWICK'. COMPILED BY STEPHEN GIBBS. SECOND EDITION. Sydney, the Compiler, 2004. 4to. (4)+171pp. Original printed wrappers, spiral-bound. A rudimentary list of books not recorded in the 1984 edition of Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket. Only ten copies of the first edition were printed. [ref: 59449] £18.00 enquire buy |
A MINGLED YARN. London, 1976. 8vo. 222pp. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Autobiography of the cricket author Alan Gibson. Padwick, 7549-2. [ref: 40135] £9.00 enquire buy |
GROWING UP WITH CRICKET. SOME MEMORIES OF A SPORTING EDUCATION. London, 1985. Large 8vo. 179pp. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Cricket memories. This was selected by The Wisden Cricketer in 2010 as one of the fifty best cricket books of all time. [ref: 32007] £12.00 enquire buy |
J.J? Taunton, privately printed, 1992. 8vo. 8pp. Frontispiece. Original cloth. Good condition. LIMITED EDITION of 50 numbered copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND JACK DAVEY. An appreciation of the Gloucestershire cricketer J.J. Davey. [ref: 57085] £85.00 enquire buy |
JACKSON'S YEAR. THE TEST MATCHES OF 1905. London, 1965. 8vo. 155pp. 13 plates. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. An account of the 1905 Australian tour of England, when F.S. Jackson headed the English batting and bowling averages. Padwick, 5000. [ref: 38042] £12.00 enquire buy |
THE CRICKET CAPTAINS OF ENGLAND. A SURVEY. London, 1979. 8vo. x+235pp. 8 plates. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. A review of every England cricket captain from William Clarke to Graham Gooch. This was selected by The Wisden Cricketer in 2010 as one of the fifty best cricket books of all time. Padwick, 767-1. [ref: 16020] £9.00 enquire buy |
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL & THE MEN WHO MADE IT. London, Caxton, 1905-06. Four volumes. Small 4to. viii+224pp., 24 full-page plates and other text illustrations; viii+215pp., 24 full-page plates and other text illustrations; viii+216pp., 24 full-page plates and other text illustrations; viii+200pp., 24 full-page plates and other text illustrations; Original pictorial cloth, gilt, covers slightly rubbed, otherwise in good condition. First edition. An early history of association football. Seddon, A Football Compendium, A37: '...These four volumes, each extending to over two hundred pages, make up what is generally regarded as the most sought after set of books in football literature. From the delightfully illustrated cover to the very last index entry, this is a journey through football history which should not be missed...' [ref: 74852] £650.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
OF DIDCOT AND THE DEMON. THE CRICKETING TIMES OF ALAN GIBSON. FOREWORD BY JOHN WOODCOCK. Bath, 2009. Large 8vo. 320pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. A selection of the cricket writings of Alan Gibson. This was The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year in 2010. [ref: 55498] £18.00 enquire buy |
WITH BAT AND BALL. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS' REMINISCENCES OF AUSTRALIAN AND ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKET. London, 1898. 8vo. 240pp. 63 plates. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Good condition. Autobiography of the famous 19th century Australian cricketer George Giffen, with reminiscences of early Australian cricket. Altham, History of Cricket, 1926: 'Authoritative for Australian cricket, 1878-1898...Excellent account of Test matches.' Padwick, 7551. [ref: 38296] £20.00 enquire buy |
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