Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#7) 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT Auction Info View ▼ Lots per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime leftLotLot nameNewestHighest priceLowest priceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 141-150 of 1482. Previous|1...131415161718...149|Next Lot #141 ‘Cricket. The Golden Ages’. A.A. Thomson. A folder comprising a collection of correspondence, originally from the archives of the London publisher, Stanley Paul & Co., relating to the publication of Thomson’s work in 1961, and subsequent re-issue by The Sportsman’s Club in 1962 (Padwick 80). The correspondence commences in 1957 with contractual negotiations between the publisher and Thomson, and is followed by letters relating to requests for the reproduction of images with replies from Diana Ra View details Estimate£70 - £100Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #142 E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘E.W.S. at Chelmsford’. Three page typed article for ‘The Cricketer’ with copious handwritten additions and alterations in red ink in Swanton’s hand. In the undated article, Swanton is reporting on the Gillette Cup Quarter-Final match, Essex v Lancashire, at Chelmsford, 30th June 1971, a closely fought match which Lancashire won by twelve runs. Having been set 204 to win by Lancashire, with man of the match, Clive Lloyd, ‘a batsman of a class transcending that of anyone in th View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #143 E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘Editorial. India and Pakistan’. Three page handwritten editorial by Swanton for ‘The Cricketer’, undated but written for the January 1971 issue. Swanton opens with an introduction stating this issue is to be the first of three devoted ‘in part to different cricket- playing countries of the Commonwealth’. He reports that preparations for this issue, focussing on India and Pakistan, were well underway before war broke out between the two nations and prays for a speedy end to h View details Estimate£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #144 Ian Peebles. Middlesex, Oxford University & England 1928-1948. Haig National Village Championship. Twelve page handwritten article by Peebles for ‘The Cricketer’, undated but written in 1972, the inaugural year of the competition organised by The Cricketer. Peebles reports on the first Final, played at Lord’s, 9th September 1972, between Troon (Ayrshire) and Astwood Bank (Worcestershire), which Troon won by seven wickets. Peebles bemoans ‘unwelcoming’ weather, and the problems encountered caused View details Estimate£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #145 Bryan Douglas ‘Bomber’ Wells. Gloucestershire & Nottinghamshire 1951-1965. ‘Things ain’t what they used to be’. Two page typed article by Wells with alterations in ink. Signed to the second page by Wells. Undated, but written for ‘Nov or Oct Cricketer’ 1972. Wells contemplates the current state of the game, believing it lacks ‘class players worth seeing’, and the necessary ‘forcible injection’ of one day cricket ‘to make the game and players come to life’, but that ‘Instant cricket, like instant View details Estimate£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #146 Ray Robinson, cricket writer. ‘The Last Man Knew His Place’. Two page typed tribute of Australian spin bowler, Bert Ironmonger, by Robinson for The Cricketer, with a third page being an obituary of Alan Kippax. The article, with handwritten alterations, is undated but almost certainly 1972, the year of Kippax’s death. Robinson remembers Ironmonger, who died in 1971, with affection and humour, describing his batting role as last man in for Australia as ‘beyond attainment by even Bill Bowes for En View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #147 John Woodcock, cricket writer and journalist. ‘Third Test Match at Edgbaston’. Seven page handwritten article by Woodcock for the September 1970 issue of The Cricketer, reporting on the third ‘Test’, England v Rest of the World’, 16th- 21st July 1970. Rest of the World had secured victory by five wickets after England had conceded a first innings lead of 269, and suffered ‘two bad accidents’ in their second, the running out of Fletcher, and Cowdrey mistiming a long hop on a slow wicket. He comme View details Estimate£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #148 Alan Ross, cricket writer, poet and publisher. ‘Old Crock of Gold’. Three page (plus additional slip) handwritten article by Ross for The Cricketer ‘Bookshelf’ book review column on Tom Graveney’s autobiography ‘Cricket Over Forty’. The article is undated, but would have been written in 1970, the year of the book’s publication. Ross describes it as ‘one of the more interesting of its type’, but considers the title and opening two chapters to be ‘a geriatric moan’. Thereafter he admires Graveney’ View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #149 Alan Ross, cricket writer, poet and publisher. ‘A Basis for Discussion’. Three page handwritten article by Ross for The Cricketer ‘Bookshelf’ book review column on ‘Don’t Play With Apartheid’ by Peter Hain. The article is undated, but would have been written in 1971, the year of the book’s publication, in which Hain presents his account of the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign which led to the boycotting of sporting and other international contacts with South Africa. Ross admire’s the ‘passionate View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #150 Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer. Trinidad & West Indies 1938-1957. Four page typed article by Stollmeyer, ‘The LBW Law of the Future’, dated 28th March 1970 and written for ‘Tony Cozier’s new magazine’, and accompanied by a two page typed letter dated 20th May 1970 to Jim Swanton, asking him to read and comment on the article. Stollmeyer writes at a time of escalating ‘turmoil’ in Trinidad and Tobago with a State of Emergency having been declared. In the article Stollmeyer presents his arguments for a View details Estimate£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lots per page 102550100 Previous|1...131415161718...149|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Next
