LASTING THE PACE. BY BOB WILLIS. London, 1985. Large 8vo. 183pp. 8 plates. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title. Autobiography of the Surrey, Warwickshire and England fast bowler Bob Willis. [ref: 51906] £20.00 enquire buy |
THE CRICKET REVOLUTION. TEST CRICKET IN THE 1970s. BY BOB WILLIS. London, 1981. 8vo. 194pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. A review of cricket in the 1970s. [ref: 38002] £18.00 enquire buy |
THE CRICKET REVOLUTION. TEST CRICKET IN THE 1970s. BY BOB WILLIS. London, 1981. 8vo. 194pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. A review of cricket in the 1970s. [ref: 73364] £8.00 enquire buy |
CRICKET'S BIGGEST MYSTERY: THE ASHES. Guildford, 1983. Large 8vo. 159pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. The origin of The Ashes. [ref: 19902] £8.00 enquire buy |
DEFENDING THE ASHES 1932-1933. Melbourne, 1933. 8vo. 222pp. Folding frontispiece and 18 plates. Original decorative cloth. An Australian publication on the 1932-33 England bodyline tour of Australia. With a foreword by W.W. Armstrong. Padwick, 4486. [ref: 34515] £20.00 enquire buy |
CHARLES BARNETT. Taunton, privately printed, 1991. Small 8vo. (8)pp. Original printed cloth. LIMITED EDITION of 40 copies (of which this is unnumbered), SIGNED BY CHARLES BARNETT AND THE AUTHOR. An appreciation of the Gloucestershire and England cricketer Charles Barnett. [ref: 70948] £85.00 enquire buy |
GOOGLIES, NUTMEGS & BOGEYS. THE ORIGINS OF PECULIAR SPORTING LINGO. Cambridge, 2006. 8vo. vi+195pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. On the origin of many sporting words and phrases. [ref: 73892] £12.00 enquire buy |
SPORTING PIE. WITH A PREFACE BY A.J. WEBBE. London, 1922. 8vo. 287pp. 16 plates. Original cloth, covers soiled. Reminiscences of the Cambridge University cricketer and sporting journalist F.B. Wilson. Padwick, 8236. [ref: 19908] £9.00 enquire buy |
CRICKET POEMS. London, 1905. Small 8vo. 66pp. Original pictorial cloth, covers slightly soiled. Printed on hand-made paper, edges untrimmed. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Scarce and difficult to obtain.' Padwick, 6544. [ref: 51189] £35.00 enquire buy |
WILSON, (Martin). ALLAN LAMB. RECORD IN FIRST-CLASS CRICKET 1973-1995. COMPILED BY MARTIN WILSON. Knighton, Leicester, the Compiler, 1995. 8vo. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. LIMITED EDITION of 25 numbered copies, SIGNED BY ALLAN LAMB AND THE COMPILER. A statistical summary of the career of the Northamptonshire and England batsman Allan Lamb. [ref: 68551] £65.00 enquire buy |