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114809A gelatin silver photograph 177 × 125 mm produced in the mid-1990s from the original 1930s negative. The photograph is personally signed in ink on the image by Sir Donald Bradman 1908-2001 and comes with our letter of authenticity. We purchased this item in the late 1990s from a source whom we know well and whose connection with Don Bradman was proven and long-established; we knew the owner of the negatives; we can guarantee the signature is genuine. unknown
114804A gelatin silver photograph 303 × 240 mm produced in the mid-1990s from the original 1930s negative. The photograph is personally signed in ink on the image by Sir Donald Bradman 1908-2001 and comes with our letter of authenticity. We purchased this item in the late 1990s from a source whom we know well and whose connection with Don Bradman was proven and long-established; we knew the owner of the negatives; we can guarantee the signature is genuine. unknown
1933107014Adelaide: Rigby Ltd 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Rigby Ltd. 1933. Small oblong folio 40 pages including the covers with illustrations on 24 pages 16 full-page and the front cover. Two-colour pictorial card covers recently reattached with the spine reinforced on the verso; an excellent copy of an absolute rarity. 'The Book has been written for the new regime of cricket; the batter bruise and bust cricket which has been thrust upon us. This travesty of an erstwhile noble sport demands new techniques to master it . We find after years of research that all previous books on cricket dealt mainly with batting bowling fielding and records. It is not now sufficient to wield a polished bat to execute a classic leg-glance or a neat on-drive' - you get the drift. The delicious irony is that this copy has the contemporary ownership details of a young Jeff Pash 1916-2005 then aged about 17. A few years later in 1939 he was awarded the Magarey Medal as the 'Fairest and Most Brilliant' player in the South Australian National Football League. Rigby Ltd paperback
1975140593Bombay: Anandji Dossa 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Bombay Anandji Dossa 1975 to 1979. Quarto pagination ranges from between 48 pages the first issue to 84 pages October-December 1976 a twin tour issue with the average around 70 pages extensively illustrated. Binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine 'Cricket Quarterly India' retaining the original colour-pictorial wrappers; minimal signs of age and use a long tear to one leaf has been expertly sealed; in excellent condition. Despite being titled a 'Quarterly' the periodical appeared only three times a year. Anandji Dossa paperback
1933112027Glebe: Simmons Limited Printers 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Glebe Simmons Limited Printers 1933. Oblong quarto 32 pages with numerous illustrations. Colour-pictorial wrappers very lightly chipped and marked with minimal expert conservation to the head and foot of the spine; an excellent copy. Padwick 6881. Simmons Limited (Printers) paperback
1933100839Glebe: Simmons Limited Printers 1933. Very Good. Glebe Simmons Limited Printers 1933. Oblong quarto 32 pages with numerous illustrations. Original colour-pictorial front wrapper lightly marked with two short repaired tears and modern replacement rear wrapper from near-matching paper stock; an excellent copy. Padwick 6881. Simmons Limited (Printers) unknown
1928100838Sydney: NSW Bookstall Company 1928. Very Good. Sydney NSW Bookstall Company 1928. Quarto 24 pages with numerous illustrations. Original colour-pictorial front wrapper unevenly trimmed at an early stage now expertly lined with tissue with the margins reinstated and modern replacement rear wrapper; contemporary ownership stamp on the inside front cover and two other pages with similar details in ink on the front cover Mary P. Snell Port Gawler February 1929 and some relevant annotations in her hand on two pages; minor signs of use; a very good copy. Padwick 4457 and 7028. NSW Bookstall Company unknown
1983140592Hong Kong: Riaz Ahmed Mansuri afterward A. Mohammed and others 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Hong Kong Riaz Ahmed Mansuri afterward A. Mohammed and others 1983 to 1984. Small quarto 12 issues bound as one 76 pages the first seven issues or 80 pages the last five issues each issue with numerous illustrations some in colour. Later binders cloth retaining the original colour-pictorial wrappers; occasionally a little cropped at the edges when rebound; newsprint a little tanned; a few creases marks and other minor signs of use and age; in very good condition overall. This pan-Asian journal covered world cricket with a focus on India Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The editorial team included cross-border cricketing royalty including Hanif Mohammad and former Indian captain Ajit Wadekar. It appears to have been short-lived. Riaz Ahmed Mansuri, afterward A. Mohammed (and others) paperback
1985140591Lahore: Syed Abbas Kazim 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Lahore Syed Abbas Kazim 1985. Small quarto six issues bound as one 128 112 104 112 116 and 104 pages including the covers with numerous illustrations from photographs many in colour. Later binders cloth retaining the original colour-pictorial wrappers; occasionally a little cropped at the edges when rebound; newsprint a little tanned; two leaves lacking from Number 5; a few creases marks and other minor signs of use and age; in good condition overall. The first six issues of this short-lived magazine launched by legendary Pakistani cricket journalist Gul Hameed Bhatti. By early 1986 he was back writing for 'The Cricketer Pakistan' so these issues may be the extent of the publication see Mohammad Naukhez Arsalan: 'Remembering Gul Hameed Bhatti' in 'Scoreline' 20 November 2020. It is sometimes referred to as 'Cricket Star'. Syed Abbas Kazim paperback
188628626London: James Lillywhite Frowd & Co 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London James Lillywhite Frowd & Co. 1886. Small octavo xxi 275 20 sporting goods catalogue 6 advertisements pages including printed endpapers plus a mounted Woodburytype frontispiece of the 1885 Yorkshire Eleven 59 × 89 mm and rear cover advertising. Flush-cut cloth-covered boards a little mottled and bubbled with the spine a little sunned; frontispiece slightly offset; an excellent copy. Padwick 1087 part. James Lillywhite, Frowd & Co hardcover
1921112033London: Graphic Publications Ltd 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London Graphic Publications Ltd. 1921. Quarto 32 pages with numerous illustrations plus advertisements printed on the wrappers in blue and red on all bar the front panel. Pictorial wrappers; minimal signs of use; an excellent copy. Padwick 5027 and 7024. Graphic Publications, Ltd paperback
18712437Charterhouse School 1871. Hardcover. Very good. Dates: 1871-1877 and 1910. Small 4to. 37 ff. mostly with newspaper clippings neatly pasted in on both sides 4 ff. in manuscript "Summary of Scores" from 1871-1877 and 1910. Several leaves excised; it is possible that the present album had been re-purposed. On a few of the stubs appear fragmentary MS notations suggesting that the notebook may have once been divided alphabetically. We find on certain stubs "Ai" followed immediately by "Ao" and then several leaves later: "Her. - Hes" followed by "Io." Binding rebacked with smooth calf. In very good condition. Highly interesting homemade album of Cricket Scores available nowhere else specifically documenting the triumphs of three young members of the Blomfield family namely: E.G. Edward George C.J. Charles James and R.T. Reginald Theodore. One wonders if the present album was created in order to promote friendly competition between the brothers two of whom went to Haileybury School and one went to Charterhouse; all three went up to Oxford. There are scores and game synopsis of matches were between Haileybury Charterhouse Marylebone Cricket Club MCC Westminster Trinity College Oxon. Exeter Oxon. and more. One of the more interesting features about the album is that it provides a fascinating record of one family's love of the game:<br /> <br /> ¶ Edward George 1853-1885 entered Charterhouse School London in 1865 and transfer upon the School's removal to Godalming in 1872; in 1873 he went to Trinity College Oxon. where he earned a B.A. in 1877 and M.A. in 1879; thereafter he served as Curate of St. Mary's Portsea until 1883 and then Vicar of St. Mark's Woolston until his death in London in 1885.<br /> <br /> ¶ Charles James 1855-1928 went to Haileybury School; he underwent military training at Sandhurst and served as an army officer in India Sudan and Natal. He attained the rank of Major General before his retirement in 1917. NB: this individual is not to be confused with a noted architect of the same name b. 1862 d. 1932. <br /> <br /> ¶ Reginald Theodore 1856-1942 also went to Haileybury School; he earned his B.A. from Exeter Oxon. in 1880 and M.A. in 1884. He became an architect and was knighted in 1919. He is remembered mainly for his work designing British war memorials. <br /> <br /> ¶ The parents of the three young men were Rev. George John and his first cousin Isabella Blomfield of Bow Devonshire whose own father Charles James Blomfield was Bishop of London. <br /> <br /> ¶ At the end is a "Summary of Scores" for the years 1871-1877. Following this in a different hand is the year 1910; although the initial of the last name "Blomfield" remains the same the other initials belong to Reginald Thomas and his two sons Henry George and Austin. <br /> <br /> ¶ See Stedman Charterhouse Register 1872-1900 passim. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We are grateful to Catherine Smith Archivist of Charterhouse School for much useful information concerning the Blomfield Family. hardcover
109418The signatories are a'Beckett Fairfax Grimmett Hurwood Kippax Oldfield and Walker. The signatures were collected by the parents of a five year-old boy when the family travelled on the same ship as the cricketers on the voyage to England in early 1930. The leaves are the first two in an album with the printed image of the ship the Orient Line's SS 'Orford' on the front cover; some of the leaves are held in place with clear paper tape but the overall condition is very good. <p>The page was also signed in pencil by Victor Richardson and again by Walker but the young owner went over these signatures in ink after first having tried to erase the second Walker signature written at right angles along the right-hand side at the end of the other signatures. The balance of the squad's signatures on another page are similarly gone over. However among the seven decent signatures there are some famous names as well as some rare and interesting Test players. Ted a'Beckett played in four Tests; Alec Hurwood played in only two Tests; Charlie Walker toured twice 1930 and 1938 without playing in a Test match due to injuries and he was killed in action in a bombing mission over Germany in 1942. unknown
1937137295Sydney: Kavanagh and English Ltd 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney Kavanagh and English Ltd. 1937. Quarto 28 pages. Colour-decorated wrappers lightly rubbed and a little marked; minor signs of age and use including two light stains to one page; a very good copy. Price List Number 326 of an unspecified upper limit. Loosely inserted is a processed circular letter on the company's letterhead 2 leaves rectos only folded for posting the leading edges now creased with a few tiny sealed tears. The letter dated 1 April 1937 outlines the trade terms prefaced with the following paragraph: 'It is regretted that owing to the tremendous increase in the price of metals and other materials together with increased production costs we have been forced to reduce the Discounts applicable to our List'. The letter addressed to L. Cann proprietor of the eponymous hardware store on The Parade at Norwood in suburban Adelaide is signed by 'J.M. Gregory' - none other than Jack Morrison Gregory 1895-1973 the famous Australian Test cricketer. <p>During the First World War he 'had two tours of duty in France. In 1919 he joined the A.I.F. cricket team in England. Under the leadership of H.L. Collins Gregory developed into an all-rounder whose spectacular hitting was matched by fearsome fast bowling and prehensile slip fielding. <p>Discharged from the A.I.F. in March 1920 Gregory played a leading part next summer in the recovery of the Ashes from England with 442 runs at 73 in the five matches including a century at Melbourne 23 wickets at 24 and 15 catches. <p>In December 1928 he broke down with a knee injury in the first Test against England and retired. In 24 Test matches he had taken 85 wickets at 31 made 1146 runs at just under 37 and taken 37 catches. In first-class cricket his figures were 504 wickets at 21 and 5661 runs at 36. <p>He had joined Kavanagh & English Pty Ltd sheet metal manufacturers in the mid-1920s and was a director by 1928' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 2 items. Kavanagh and English Ltd paperback
193397242Adelaide: South Australian Cricket Association 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide South Australian Cricket Association 1933. Octavo 96 pages with numerous illustrations and advertisements plus cover advertisements. Attractive pictorial wrappers printed in green and gold; top corner of the outside rear cover lightly stained; centrefold scoring sheet completed neatly in ink with the final results for the last three Tests on the relevant page; short tear to one leaf expertly sealed; an excellent copy. A pre-match publication for the Test that saw bodyline tactics move from controversy to crisis. Padwick 4487. South Australian Cricket Association paperback
69695A program octavo 12 pages of colour photocopy signed by the entire squad of eighteen next to their portraits on the last few pages; a fine copy. The fifteen players are Jayasuriya Attapatu De Silva Vaas Muralitharan Tillakaratne Jayawardena Arnold Sangakkara Fernando Gunawardene Gunaratne Fernando Nissanka and Mubarak. <p>Offered with a copy of the dinner menu octavo 2 pages in a card folder; it carries sixteen signatures but we make no guarantees as to the identity of any of them! 2 items. unknown
1877144575Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1877. Octavo vi 60 pages plus advertising on the outside rear cover. Original flush-cut yellow cloth with the full title page details repeated on the front cover with the addition of a vignette illustration and ruled border; first and last page tanned; later ownership details on the front pastedown with the name repeated on the dedication page; a near-fine copy. 'First Year of Publication' and rare especially in this condition. A second volume 'The South Australian Cricketers' Guide and Footballers' Companion. Season 1877-78' appeared the following year; a third and final volume 'The South Australian Cricketers' Guide. Season 1884-85' was published in 1885. <p>Padwick 3375. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1934144537London 28 George Street Hanover Square W.1.: Lenare 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London 28 George Street Hanover Square W.1. Lenare 1934. Two large-format gelatin silver photographs each 351 × 264 mm signed by the photographer in the negative with his studio inkstamp and manuscript reference number on the versos. Some silvering-out mainly around the edges; tiny creases to the corners of the white margins of one print; overall in excellent condition loosely inserted in the original cloth portfolio lettered in gilt on the padded front panel in excellent condition albeit with a spot of surface wear near the middle of the spine. Clarrie Grimmett the NZ-born Australian Test cricketer was one of the finest leg-spinners of his time. He is photographed in two different poses: head-and-shoulders from the side wearing his cap and blazer; and three-quarter length from the front wearing pullover and blazer with cap in hand. Lenare was the professional name of Leonard George Green 1883-1946; he specialised in society portraits at his London studio. <p>Provenance: Clarrie Grimmett originally purchased at the Christie's auction of the Clarrie Grimmett Collection sold in Melbourne on 13 May 1998. Grimmett played 37 Tests between 1924 and 1936 taking 216 wickets at an average of 24.21. His record for the fastest bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests achieved in his 36th match stood for 82 years and was broken only in 2018. His first-class record of 1424 wickets in 248 matches between 1911 and 1941 includes 513 wickets in his 79 Sheffield Shield matches. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931 along with Don Bradman. He was posthumously inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members and in 2009 he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. 2 items. Lenare hardcover
185412798Leeds; Webb Millington & Co. c. 1854 1854. Octavo pamphlet in paper wraps. 8 unsigned pages of captioned hand-coloured woodcuts inner forme blank. Golden yellow covers; title and vignette within border to upper cover; advertisements to lower cover. Date from gift inscription to first page. Covers scuffed and rubbed; small marginal tear to foredge of contents continues to covers; spine re-stitched. Small numeral in ink to second page. A rare children's book from a prolific Yorkshire printer and publisher. Eight illustrations depict various games played by children at a birthday paper including marbles cricket 'shuttlecock' and a now obscure bat-sport known as 'trap-bat and ball'. As an ancestor to cricket trap-bat involves a batsman with a paddle-shaped bat hitting a walnut-sized ball called a 'knurr' from a fixed position 'the trap'. Webb Millington & Co. were a an Otley-based printer of chapbooks toy books and jobbing ephemera operative from c. 1832-1882. Publishing through London agents such as Dean and Son they produced a variety of juvenilia from 'stock blocks'. Much of their output is now rare as the factory was destroyed in a fire in 1882. A record of sporting cousins to cricket the illustrations in this book are an exceedingly rare depiction of provincial English bat-sports. COPAC and Worldcat do not locate any copies world-wide. We locate no records of this volume going through auction and find one record only of any book in the Uncle Tom's Treasury series. Leeds; Webb, Millington & Co. [c. 1854] paperback
14523The Oval cricket ground London 1948. A nice piece of cricket memorabilia. The match which Australia won is remembered as Bradman's last test in which he was bowled for a duck in the second innings denying him a three-figure average. On a 16 x 11 cm leaf removed from an autograph album. In very good condition on lightly-aged paper. Presented portrait-style with 'ENGLAND - OVAL - 1948' neatly written at the head. Beneath this in two irregular columns are the signatures of the players with the exception of the signature of Eric Hollies bowler of the ball which dismissed Bradman in the Australian second innings the signature of substitute Reg Simpson present instead. The signatories are in the first column: Jack Crapp John Dewes Allan Watkins Jack Young Alec Bedser Reg Simpson substitute for Eric Hollies; and in the second column: Norman Yardley Bill Edrich Denis Compton Len Hutton captain Godfrey Evans wicket-keeper. See signatures of the Australian Cricket Team 1948 #14522 above The Oval cricket ground, London, 1948. unknown
16093June 1969. Eleven pages one side of page only folio stapled one corner fold mark down centre good condition. Headings as follows: Matches 1969; The Guinness Cup 1968; Northern Cricket Union 1968; Leinster Senior Cricket; Donal Donovan Report from Munster 1968. No other copy of this periodical has yet been traced NLI COPAC etc. June, 1969 unknown
13778The manuscript poem Littlebourne and Chislet Cricket Clubs both in Kent dated 4 July 1912; the printed poem Fleet Cricket Club Hampshire without printer's details and undated. Manuscript poem: 4pp. 12mo. On bifolium. Titled at head of first page: 'July 4th. 1912.' Forty-eight lines of rhymed verse arranged in twelve four-line stanzas. The first three stanzas read: 'Oh! Thursday last was a day of days If you listen I'll tell you why. In fifty-one and a thousand ways It excelled many days gone by. Well! Littlebourne boasts of a Cricket team. Here lies the pith of our tale For Chislet a challenge sent forth and I deem They had nought to request or bewail. A fine opposition our village sent forth And at twelve on Lee Priory Ground They were ready to show onlookers their worth And determined to win I'll be bound!' The Littlebourne team score 80 runs before 'The tenth man was given "leg before."' A 'luncheon and tea' are then given and the narrator states that 'Of those unbeknown whom I helped to feed Were Pope Hunt Morgan Kirby and Grinstead.' He continues: 'The Doctor was there in his usual trim And his batting was none of the worst. His son bowled a bit so thanks go to him. Then another who fielded was Hirst.' An unnamed bowler who had scored 'a duck' 'Five wickets he took out of ten'. 'There are still two more I've forgotten to mention Nevill Cheatle and Smith were their names. The former's engaged and needs no apprehension The latter was surrounded with dames.' The outcome of the match is unclear the last stanza reading: 'But Thursday has gone and can ne'er come again. And Chislet were given the wicket But its fun and its joy will longer remain. So 3 cheers for the Littlebourne Cricket.' Printed poem: 1p. 12mo. On one side of printed 'Post Card' without any manuscript text. Arranged in portrait format and headed: 'Mr. C. S. Buckingham has retired from active cricket and is presenting the Fleet Cricket Club with a pair of oak gates. Vide "Hants & Berks Gazette."' Twenty-four rhyming lines arranged in six four-line stanzas. Addressed to Buckingham the poem begins: 'Ye placid waters around Chequers Bridge Reflect the dull dark sorrow: Our cricket hero's bats at rest Alas! What of to-morrow' The subject is described as 'the "Rooster Chief" Of Brother Carey's chicken'. He is also said to have 'Told the world of our bowler bold Biographer of Harris.' Final stanza: 'A pleasant memory yet remains A consolation left us Our flannelled legion will march to fame Through the gates of Claudius Septimus.' The manuscript poem [Littlebourne and Chislet Cricket Clubs, both in Kent] dated 4 July 1912; the printed poem [Fleet Cricket Cl unknown
194624696s.l.: s.n. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1946. Ephemera. Some foxing.; Sheet of facsimile signatures. 18 signatures including the manager R. Howard. Autographs include W. R. Hammond Captain; R.G. Gibb; L.B. Fishlock; A.V. Bedser; N.W.D. Yardley; W.J. Edrich; Joe Hardstaff; Cyril Washbrook. On a sheet of paper with printed title "M.C.C. Tour in Australia & New Zealand 1946-47". Dimensions: 203 x 139mm. A similar sheet with signatures in the same positions the original is held in the collection of the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum registration number 1989.2149. . [s.n.] unknown
196524699s.l.: M.C.C. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Ephemera. Some minor foxing and staining.; On a sheet of paper with printed title "M.C.C. Australasian Tour 1965 1966". Dimensions: 228 x 191mm. Beneath the title are 17 printed names with 17 signatures beside them. Signatures include Mike Smith Captain and Colin Cowdrey Vice-Captain. This sheet does not have the signature of the Manageer S. C. Griffith but instead beside the printed name S. C. Griffith is the autograph of B. Knight. "Barry Knight arrived on 6 December when David Larter bruised heel and David Brown pulled side muscles were unfit and Jeff Jones was under threat of an umpire's ban for persistently running down the line of the wickets when bowling." - SportsStats website "Test Cricket Tours - England to Australia 1965-66" accessed February 2023. . M.C.C. unknown
196524698s.l.: M.C.C. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Ephemera. Minor stain to lower corner.; On a sheet of paper with printed title "M.C.C. Australasian Tour 1965 1966". Dimensions: 230 x 191mm. Beneath the title are 17 printed names with 17 signatures beside them. Signatures include Mike Smith Captain and Colin Cowdrey Vice-Captain and S. C. Griffith Manager. . M.C.C. unknown