DICKENS, Charles; Illustrated by BROWNE, Halbot K "Phiz"; STEPHENSON, Heathfield Harman; [CRICKET]:Biblio.com
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20251London: Bradbury and Evans. 1853. First edition in book form. First edition in book form. Late 20th century full burgundy morocco with decorative morocco onlay titles in gilt to the spine. All edges with contemporary marbling. Modern marbled endpapers. Frontispiece title page vignette and 38 full-page illustrations by H.K. Browne. A very good copy indeed the binding square and firm. The contents with the inevitable darkening of the plate edges with some offsetting to the opposite pages are otherwise clean throughout. The original blank front endpaper has the ownership inscription of the famous English cricketer Heathfield H. Stephenson dated 1894. A curious and appealing cricketing association copy. With all first issue points within the text present. Smith part I: 6b Charles Dickens' works are among the most celebrated in the English literary canon but cricket fans might argue that his greatest achievement was inadvertently triggering the long international cricket rivalry of England and Australia.�The first ever England vs Australia tour was originally conceived as a Victorian PR stunt and sponsorship opportunity by two entrepreneurial Melbourne-based businessmen the wine merchants Felix William Spiers and Christopher Pond. Having failed to persuade Charles Dickens to conduct a lecture tour of Australia the two Englishmen turned their attention to cricket. The sport's popularity was growing in Australia so Spiers and Pond invited a team of leading English cricketers to tour the country. Twelve players signed up for the tour. Named "The Eleven of All England" or "H. H. Stephenson's XI" after the English Captain Heathfield Harman Stephenson they each received £150 first class passage aboard SS Great Britain costing 70 guineas plus all expenses.�The inaugural English tour of Australia was a great success promoting the development of Australian cricket and inspiring later English teams to visit Australia. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Bradbury and Evans. 1853 unknown
932058Fine. Hi The Centurions Portfolio in a black leather presentation case. Presented to David T. Thompson many Signed. Edition 90 of 100 W. G. Grace - T. W. Hayward - Sir John Berry Hobbs - C. P. Mead - E. H. Hendren - F. E. Woolley - H. Sutcliffe - G. E. Tyldesley - W. R. Hammond - A. Sandham - Sir Donald Bradman signed - L. E. G. Ames - Sir Leonard Hutton - D. C. S. Compton signed - T. W. Graveney Signed- Sir Colin Cowdrey Signed - J. H. Edrich Signed - G. Boycott Signed - G. M. Turner Signed - Zaheer Abbas Signed - D. L. Amiss Signed - I. V. A. Richards - G. A. Gooch Signed - G. A. Hick - signed print Condition=9/10 hardcover
932158Fine. WISDEN FIVE CRICKETERS OF THE YEAR IN ALBUMS. Various handpainted prints by Denise M.Dean limited to 150 Wisden Official Artist Genuine Signatures probably the best collection of post-war cricket autographs in the world Signed : I.T. Botham OBE D.W. Randall A.R. Morris R.W.T. Key K.C. Wessels M.A. Atherton R.S. Dravid R. Subba Row CBE T.E. Bailey P.A. De Silva J.H. Childs C.E.B. Rice V.A.P. Van Der Bijl F.J. Titmus T.G. Evans F.H. Tyson R.W. Taylor J.J. Whitaker R. Subba Row CBE R.N. Harvey R.A. Smith C.P. Swann M. Hendrick D.L. Underwood MBE M.J.K. Smith OBE S.G. Law N.E. Briers E.R. Dexter A. Kumble B.L. D'Olivera P. Bainbridge B.A. Richards P.A. Neale J.M. Parks M.J. Proctor I.D. Austin J.L. Langer P.M. Roebuck D.I. Gower OBE P.M. Pollock I.D. Austin L. Klusener P.M. Roebuck C.M.W. Read G.D. McGrath M.P. Maynard M.W. Alleyne R.M. Ellison M.W. Gatting OBE J.N. Rhodes G.P. Thorpe A. Flower J.P. Agnew R.T. Simpson S.L. Watkin T.A. Munton I.J. Harvey J. Simmons MBE B.C. Rose D.G. Cork D.A. Reeve S. Gavaskar J.E. Emburey G.S. Chappell MBE D.B. Close I.D.K. Salisbury K.J. Barnett G.A. Gooch OBE I.R. Bell MBE D.E. Malcolm P.A.J. DeFreitas A.P.E. Knott A.R.C. Fraser S.T. Jayasuriya A.R. Caddick D. Gough T.E. Jesty S.J. Rhodes K.P. Pietersen MBE Waqar Younis S.P. Jones MBE C.E.B. Rice M.D. Moxon M.E. Waugh Wasim Akram A.J. Strauss S. Ramadhin A.J. Stewart A.A. Donald S.J. Cook R.W. Marsh MBE G. Pullar N.E. Briers M.G. Hughes T.M. Moody J.K. Lever MBE R.B. Simpson A.R. Butcher D.C. Boon Saqlain Mushtaq J.K. Lever MBE Sir Richard J. Hadlee R.B. Richardson I.A. Healy MT.G. Elliott N.A. Foster Rt. Rev. D.S. Sheppard Saeed Anwar P.V.Simmons Mushtaq Ahmed Not Signed : J.M. Anderson M.J. Prior S.K. Warne S.C.J. Broad A.F. Giles P.E. Richardson S.R. Waugh R.G.D. Willis MBE A.R. Border A.I. Kallicharran N. Hussain A.J. Lamb R.D. Jackman Condition=9/10 unknown
Single sheet, 8vo., a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter regretfully declines Moore's invitation to attend the Buccaneer's annual dinner (held at Lords): 'I've already got a date I can't budge!'. Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890-1967) was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the (new) Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936, after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command, controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa, including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal, Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe (the most senior such British position) immediately beneath General Eisenhower, on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture, afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
66237Very Good. The item comprises an almond-shaped base approximately 195 × 130 × 30 mm surmounted by a 120 mm-high figure of W.G. Grace standing between two glass inkpots with silver lids and a two-part stand for pens. The decorated rim of the base is slightly bumped; in excellent condition albeit a little tarnished. Probably Edwardian; the underside of the base is stamped 'James Deakin & Sons Sheffield 10475'. unknown
1956123Very Good. Hi I am selling some of my non Wisdens Here we have : John Wisdens RUGBY Football Almanack - Complete Set of 3 This series only ran for three volumes the first time I have listed on emyself on this site I did sell the first one off line for 500 which inspired me to dig out my spares and I have a full and an extra one of the third edition. You do not see these too often a set of rebinds sold for over 1000 at auction. This set has an issue with the first edition as it starts on page 5 and lacking a lot of the spine paper the other two are in rather good condition. Plese see the pictures Condition=7/10 unknown
2191217Near Fine. John Wisdens Cricketers Notebook for 1907 Soft red covers and i a very nice condition. 212 pages Each year between 1900 and 1913 Wisden produced these little notebooks comprising a diary section and an extensive cricket records section compiled by F S Ashley Cooper. Condition=8/10 unknown
15 vols., 8vo., brown cloth, a fine set in publisher's yellow cloth oyster presentation case blocked and lettered in black. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 SETS
144619It is an exceptional gelatin silver photographic print measuring a gigantic 530 × 510 mm approximately printed from the negative by the photographer for Michael Treloar in the mid-1990s. Treloar went to an exhibition of Simpson's work at his studio at the time and saw the image on display. It had been commissioned originally as part of a series of portraits of significant older South Australians for an exhibition at the David Jones Gallery in the later 1970s. Treloar in turn commissioned David Simpson to produce a small quantity of prints ten from memory. The photographic paper used to print them was old stock long obsolete; the results were so impressive another batch possibly five was commissioned. Alas only modern paper could be had - still very large at 470 × 475 mm still a wonderful portrait - but the difference was sufficient to determine that no more prints were commissioned. The original lot were signed and dated 1977 by the photographer and subsequently all prints were personally signed in black felt-tipped pen by Sir Don Bradman. The group of very large format prints has been in storage for nearly twenty years forgotten about if not exactly lost until now . The outstanding quality of these portrait photographs make them a far more fitting tribute to the man than a lot of the pedestrian and indifferent material universally on offer. The 470 × 475 mm prints signed by Sir Don Bradman are available for $1250 each. unknown
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
86209William Albert Oldfield 1894-1976 described by Jack Hobbs as the 'best wicketkeeper of his time' played for NSW and Australia and his Test career of 54 matches ran from 1920 to 1937. This photograph is a fine sepia-toned head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Oldfield in a suit; he has signed and dated it 1926 in ink in the bottom right-hand corner above the ink signature of the photographer May Moore. The image size is 280 × 180 mm and it is now archivally matted ready for framing. <p>New Zealand-born May Moore 1881-1931 emigrated to Australia in 1910 and opened her first studio the following year in Sydney. Working initially together with her sister Mina who ran her own studio in Melbourne from 1916 her excellent portrait photography attracted a large clientele especially among artistic circles. May in particular photographed many Sydney celebrities and it is not surprising to find that the cricketing heroes of the day made it to her studio. With 'a studio style using dramatic single source lighting dark backgrounds rich brown toned papers and sombre colour mounts and favouring head and shoulder studies . the sisters were extraordinary in their ability to portray a range of moods appropriate to their sitters' Gael Newton. Illness forced her to retire about 1928 and she died of cancer in 1931. 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
939219Near Fine. Hi For the sites 14th birthday I have listed one of my rare none Wisden cricket books.This lot is a very rare cricket book entitled. The Irish Cricketers in The United States 1879 by One of Them This book is in Very Good Condition but a couple of things to note. The spine has green tape running down it and the book has been rebacked in as much as the covers have been removed and put back on with two binders pages to the front and rear the inside of the covers is blank but it starts on the first page which is Cricket Tour of Gentlemen of Ireland in the United States and ends on the final internal page with publishers line at the end. The covers have a couple of marks but the internal pages are very nice indeed there is a small corner staining page 102 is by far the heaviest and that is shown in the pictures but otherwise they are white and clean pages with minimal spotting if any and very little handling can be seen. The last two Christies sales are below they sold for 6250 and 6000 unknown
