TENTH WICKET. OTAGO v. CANTERBURY. PLAYED AT LANCASTER PARK, CHRISTCHURCH. FRIDAY, 25 TO TUESDAY, 29 DECEMBER 1931. Christchurch, 1994. Small 8vo. 73pp. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. LIMITED EDITION of 225 numbered copies. An account of the record New Zealand last wicket partnership of 184 between Roger Blunt and William Hawkesworth for Otago against Canterbury in December 1931, taken from contemporary newspaper reports. [ref: 19289] £20.00 enquire buy |
THE ISLAND RACE. London, 1898. 8vo. 119pp. Original cloth, covers soiled. First edition. Poems, including Vitai lampada: 'There's a breathless hush in the close to-night - Ten to make and the match to win...' This poem stresses the importance of the game for its own sake, and draws an analogy between the game of cricket and life. Padwick, 6508. [ref: 37895] £20.00 enquire buy |
A CENTENARY CELEBRATION. (Newick, the Club, 1984). 8vo. 64pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. A centenary history of this Sussex club. [ref: 17955] £7.00 enquire buy |
ARSENAL. PREMIERSHIP PLAYER PROFILES. FOREWORD BY ARSENE WENGER. London, Hamlyn, 2007. 8vo. 176pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial boards. Short biographies of every footballer to play for Arsenal in the Premiership. [ref: 74395] £8.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
A very interesting two page signed autograph letter from Jack Newman to John [Arlott], in which he thanks Arlott for sending him a copy of the recently published History of Hampshire County Cricket Club. Headed Newlands Cricket Ground, Newlands, Cape. Dated 12th August 1957. ...Please excuse my being so long in thanking you for the magnificent book on the 'old county's' cricket and cricketers. It is wonderfully compiled and I trust you will accept my hearty congratulations and convey same to your co-editors. Apart from its wonderful story of the cricket history of several generations of Hampshire cricket and cricketers...one is very proud of having taken part in such a history and also to have had the honour of playing at Hambledon...The old county may not have ever finished top of the table but were and are usually a great menace to those that aspired to that coveted position... Newman (1884-1973) played for Hampshire between 1906 and 1930. [ref: 34577] £100.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
ESSEX COUNTY CRICKET 1876-1975. A BRIEF HISTORY. [Colchester, the Club, 1975]. 8vo. 94pp. 8 plates. Original wrappers. A centenary history of Essex County Cricket Club. Padwick, 1933-1. [ref: 17956] £7.00 enquire buy |
INDIVIDUAL VOLUMES FOR 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 AND 1939. London, Small 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Published annually under this title between 1931 and 1939. Publication resumed in 1946 and continued annually until 1960. Each volume contains a summary of the season, with averages and full scores of the Test matches. Formerly published as Daily News Cricket Annual between 1927 and 1930. Padwick, 1092. (Each). [ref: 17958] £12.00 enquire buy |
EDITED BY CHARLES BUCHAN. London, News Chronicle Publications, 1930. Small 8vo. 128pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Details of the 1930-31 football season. [ref: 78198] £25.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
AN IMPROVED TABLE GAME OF CRICKET. A.D. 1902, 27TH MAY. NO. 12,090. London, 1902. 4to. 2pp. and 1 full-page diagram. Bound in boards. This patent was taken out to cover his invention of a game of cricket played on a table with a bat, ball and hoop. Not recorded by Padwick. [ref: 17961] £15.00 enquire buy |
A BEAUTIFUL GAME. MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH CRICKET. London, 2016. 8vo. (9)+420pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. Autobiography of the Hampshire batsman and cricket commentator Mark Nicholas. This was The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year in 2017. [ref: 71860] £18.00 enquire buy |
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