J W McKenzie Cricket Books

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'THE TIMES' M.C.C. NUMBER. TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1937.
London, 1937.
Large folio. 24pp. Profusely illustrated. Original wrappers, soiled.
Issued as a special supplement to The Times. Includes a chapter on Lord's and its founder, by R.S. Rait Kerr, a chapter on Hambledon, by John C. Squire, and a chapter: Some Cricket Books, by Edmund Blunden. Other contributions are by P.G.H. Fender, Lord Hawke, H.S. Altham and Sir Home Gordon. Padwick, 1239-1.
[ref: 32946] £20.00 enquire buy

A CRICKETER'S NOTEBOOK
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

A NEW BOOK OF SPORTS.
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

ABEL, (Robert).
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

ABEL, (Robert).
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

ABRAHAMS, (John).
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

ACKERMANN, (Rudolph).
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] £1200.00 enquire buy

ADDIS, (Ian), DEAN, (Mick) and SLOUGH, (Brian).
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] £18.00 enquire buy

ADDIS, (Ian), RADD, (Andrew) and STEELE, (David).
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] £20.00 enquire buy

AGARD, (John).
PROSPERO CALIBAN CRICKET AND OTHER GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTIES. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY ARUNABHA SENGUPTA.
Amsterdam, 2023.
Small 8vo. 128pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers.
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