CONTAINING ORIGINAL ANECDOTES, REMARKS, NOTES, REMINISCENCES, AND OTHER GOSSIP. BY AN OLD CRICKETER. London, 1881. Small 8vo. 94pp. Original decorative cloth, covers slightly soiled. Padwick, 7916. [ref: 32042] £50.00 enquire buy |
REPRINTED FROM THE "SATURDAY REVIEW". London, 1885. 8vo. 376pp. Original cloth, covers soiled. Neat library stamp on title-page and number on spine. Includes Cricket in America, pages 271-279. Padwick, 4040. [ref: 49297] £25.00 enquire buy |
CRICKET AND HOW TO PLAY IT. London, (1895). Small 8vo. 62+4pp. publisher's advertisements. Portrait frontispiece, 7 plates and other text illustrations. Original decorative limp cloth. An instructional treatise by the Surrey and England batsman Bobby Abel. Taylor: Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906: 'This book has run through several editions, the first appearing in 1894 under the editorship of R. Abel. It is a revised edition of J. Wisden's book bearing the same title.' Padwick, 400. [ref: 55552] £20.00 enquire buy |
CRICKET AND HOW TO PLAY IT. London, (1895). Small 8vo. 62+4pp. publisher's advertisements. Frontispiece and text illustrations. Rebound in modern boards. An instructional treatise by the Surrey and England batsman Bobby Abel. Taylor: Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906: 'This book has run through several editions, the first appearing in 1894 under the editorship of R. Abel. It is a revised edition of J. Wisden's book bearing the same title.' Padwick, 400. [ref: 34677] £20.00 enquire buy |
JOHN ABRAHAMS TESTIMONIAL BROCHURE 1988. 4to. 72pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. A brochure for the John Abrahams testimonial year. Abrahams played for Lancashire between 1973 and 1988. [ref: 13308] £5.00 enquire buy |
THE HISTORY OF RUGBY SCHOOL. London, R. Ackermann, 1816. Folio. [2]+34pp. 5 magnificent hand-coloured aquatint plates by D. Havell and J. Stadler. Bound in quarter morocco. With the bookplate of J.W. Goldman. The plate opposite page 22, by J. Stadler after W. Westall, titled View of the Southern Schools & dormitories of Rugby School from the Play Ground shows a game of cricket in the foreground. Not recorded by Gaston, Bibliography of Cricket, 1895, Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906, or Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937. Padwick, 1517. [ref: 72498] £950.00 enquire buy |
BRIAN REYNOLDS. THE TIMES AND LIFE OF THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SPORTSMAN. Kettering, 2000. 4to. 192pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. A biography of the Northamptonshire cricketer and Kettering Town footballer Brian Reynolds. [ref: 74090] £15.00 enquire buy |
THE BANK CLERK WHO WENT TO WAR. MEMORIES OF A PROFESSIONAL CRICKETER. Sheffield, 2018 8vo. 223pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Autobiography of the Northamptonshire and England batsman David Steele. [ref: 71340] £18.00 enquire buy |
PROSPERO CALIBAN CRICKET AND OTHER GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTIES. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY ARUNABHA SENGUPTA. Amsterdam, 2023. Small 8vo. 128pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. Good condition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARUNABHA SENGUPTA on the title-page. Cricket poems by John Agard, with an introduction by Arunabha Sengupta. [ref: 79848] £15.00 enquire buy |
KINGDOMS FOR HORSES. WITH DECORATIONS BY REX WHISTLER. London, 1936. Small 4to. 150pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, covers soiled. Essays by the influential theatre critic. Cricket, pages 74-102. Padwick, 6638. [ref: 13592] £12.00 enquire buy |
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