A one page autograph letter from Percy Warren to C.B. Fry, asking Fry for an autograph. Fry has added a short pencil note, signed, at the foot of the letter: Memo. Sorry but I am not in the photo! Otherwise I'll be only too glad. C.B. Fry. Fry (1872-1956) played for Oxford University between 1892 and 1895, for Sussex between 1894 and 1908, for Hampshire between 1909 and 1921, and for England between 1896 and 1912. He was one of the most talented of all English sportsmen, and also played soccer for England and held the world long jump record. [ref: 33310] £120.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
PASTIMES AND PLAYERS. London, 1881. 8vo. (10)+203pp. Original decorative cloth, covers rubbed. Cricket, pages 1-24. Other sports covered include golf, tennis, football and archery. Padwick, 832. [ref: 23917] £50.00 enquire buy |
THE YEAR BOOK OF ARGENTINE CRICKET AND OTHER BRITISH SPORTS. THIRD ISSUE. COMPILED BY JAMES McGOUGH. Buenos Aires, [1921]. 8vo. 72pp. Original printed wrappers, covers slightly soiled. This annual appeared for eight years, for seasons 1919-20 to 1926-27. Padwick, 4251. [ref: 20796] £95.00 enquire buy |
BAT AND BALL. A NEW BOOK OF CRICKET. FOREWORD BY LORD BIRKETT. London, Sportsman's Book Club, 1960. 8vo. 256pp. 16 plates. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. WITH A TYPED LETTER, SIGNED, FROM LORD BIRKETT TO THE AUTHOR REGARDING BIRKETT'S FOREWORD TO THIS EDITION tipped down on the front endpaper. Lord Birkett's foreword only appeared in the Sportsman's Book Club edition of Bat and Ball. He was a prominent barrister and was the British judge during the Nuremberg Trials. He was a very keen cricket supporter, and contributed forewords to several other cricket books. Padwick, 5855. [ref: 17781] £25.00 enquire buy |
FROM THE BABE TO THE BEARDS. THE BOSTON RED SOX IN THE WORLD SERIES. New York, Sports Publishing, 2014. Oblong 4to. x+289pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial boards in dust-wrapper. Good condition. A history of The Boston Red Sox in the World Series. [ref: 79825] £30.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
GAMES OF THE XXIIIrd OLYMPIAD LOS ANGELES 1984 COMMEMORATIVE BOOK. Salt Lake City, International Sport Publications, 1984. Large 4to. xi+287pp. Profusely illustrated, many in colour. Original decorative cloth, gilt. Official commemorative volume for the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. [ref: 44161] £10.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
A VOICE FROM THE GOLDEN AGE. THE REMARKABLE R.P. KEIGWIN. Published in Ewell by J.W. McKenzie, 2020. 8vo. xvi+175pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial stiffened wrappers. Good condition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title. A biography of R.P. Keigwin, who played cricket for Cambridge University, Essex and Gloucestershire between 1903 and 1923, much during the Golden Age of cricket. With transcripts of his correspondence in the 1960s and early 1970s in which he recalls cricketers and events in his cricket career. Keigwin was a superb all-round sportsman and played for Cambridge University at cricket, hockey, football and rackets. He went on to represent England at hockey. His rackets partner was A.E.J. Collins, who in 1899 famously scored 628 not out in a school match. .................................................................... Association of Cricket Statisticians, January 2021: At the heart of the book is a series of chapters examining the greats of the Golden Age, with Keigwin's comments on some of those he played against during his career...there are comparisons of the bowling styles of Charles Blythe and Wilfred Rhodes, reflections on the fast bowlers of the period (the fastest being Kotze, Tom Richardson and Charles Kortright being past their best by the time Keigwin faced them)... Keigwin made his mark in a number of other fields. He was an excellent all-round sportsman, playing hockey for England and winning blues for Cambridge at football, hockey and rackets...as well as cricket, while in later life he played tennis at county level...This is a lovely book about a facinating man whose achievements in cricket and his love of the game were just part of a very full life. ............................................... [ref: 73288] £15.00 enquire buy |
THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL. THE NBA ACCORDING TO THE SPORTS GUY BILL SIMMONS. New York, Ballantine, 2009. 8vo. xi+(1)+715pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in slightly chipped dust-wrapper. An exploration of the major debates surrounding the NBA. [ref: 79436] £12.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
RACING AND STEEPLE-CHASING. FIFTH EDITION. London, Longmans, Green, 1900. 8vo. viii+440pp. Colour frontispiece and other Illustrations. Rebound in full green calf, gilt, spine rubbed. A history of horse racing. A volume in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. [ref: 76888] £25.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
A BOOK OF HEALTHY RECREATIONS FOR YOUTH. CONTAINING UPWARDS OF A HUNDRED AMUSEMENTS, INCLUDING GAMES OF ACTIVITY AND SPEED; GAMES WITH TOYS, MARBLES, TOPS, HOOPS, KITES, BALLS; AND FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN ARCHERY, CRICKET, CROQUET, AND BASE BALL. New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866. 8vo. 116pp. misnumbered [1-3], 4, [11],12-120+[19]pp. publisher's advertisements. With 124 woodcut illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (including an illustration of two cricket bats), covers soiled and worn. Rebacked. Staining to lower corner of preliminary pages. Instructional sporting treatise. Cricket, pages 64-82, with 13 woodcut cricket illustrations, (including one leaf with six images). Other sports covered include baseball, pages 83-92; croquet, pages 93-101; foot-ball, (including rugby), pages 101-103; and golf, pages 109-110. Not recorded by Gaston, Bibliography of Cricket, 1895, Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906, Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937, or Padwick. [ref: 58047] £1200.00 enquire buy |
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