PLAYING FOR KEEPS. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. London, 2003. Large 8vo. 284pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title. Autobiography of the Surrey and England wicketkeeper and batsman Alec Stewart. [ref: 76328] £10.00 enquire buy |
TESTIMONIAL YEAR BROCHURE 2003. London, 2003. 4to. 106pp. Profusely illustrated. Original stiffened pictorial wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ALEC STEWART on the front cover. A brochure for the Alec Stewart testimonial year. Stewart played for Surrey between 1981 and 2003, and for England between 1990 and 2003. [ref: 65849] £9.00 enquire buy |
FIELDING. THE YOUNG CRICKETER TALKS TO M.J. STEWART OF SURREY. ILLUSTRATED BY CALTON YOUNGER. London, 1961. 8vo. 59pp. Text illustrations. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. Instructional Padwick, 758. [ref: 19069] £20.00 enquire buy |
RULES AND BYE-LAWS. DATED 30th MARCH, 1949. Stirling, the Club, 1949. Small 8vo. 12pp. Original printed wrappers. Loosely inserted in an Abstract of Accounts for the season 1958. Not recorded by Padwick. [ref: 65893] £15.00 enquire buy |
THE DEMON BOWLER AND OTHER CRICKET STORIES. Collingwood (Aust.), 1979. 8vo. 114pp. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Cricket fiction. Padwick, 6127-3. [ref: 19070] £9.00 enquire buy |
ON FIRE. MY STORY OF ENGLAND'S SUMMER TO REMEMBER. London, 2019. 8vo. (8)+307pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. An account of England winning the cricket World Cup in 2019, and the 2019 Australian tour of England, by one of the main participants. [ref: 72582] £9.00 enquire buy |
EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN. MY LIFE IN WEST INDIES CRICKET. London, 1983. Large 8vo. 231pp. 16 plates. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Autobiography of the West Indies batsman Jeff Stollmeyer. [ref: 29152] £9.00 enquire buy |
A TREASURE TROVE AT HOVE. THE STORY OF THE LONG AND TORTUOUS HISTORY OF THE SUSSEX CRICKET LIBRARY...FOREWORD BY DAVID GILBERT. Hove, 2021. 8vo. 92pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. Good condition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. The story of the Sussex County Cricket Club museum and library. [ref: 75311] £18.00 enquire buy |
THE REAL THING. (London), Faber, (1982?). 4to. 1 Leaf. Verso blank. 30cms x 21cms. Framed and glazed. LIMITED EDITION of 500 numbered copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Offprint from Sir Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing describing the construction of a cricket bat bat: ...looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way...It's for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds...there's a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords. construction [ref: 74826] £45.00 enquire buy |
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STOPPARD, (Tom). THE REAL THING. (London, 1982?). 4to. 1 Leaf, (verso blank). 30cms x 21cms. Broadsheet. Good condition. LIMITED EDITION of 500 numbered copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Offprint from Sir Tom Stoppard's play, The Real Thing, describing the construction of a cricket bat: looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way...It's for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds...there's a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords. [ref: 29112] £25.00 enquire buy |