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Auction archive: Lot number 5

ASHLEY-COOPER, Frederick Samuel. W. G. Grace Cricketer; A record of his performances in first class matches , London: John Wisden & Co., [1916], 4°, FIRST EDITION (foldmark to centre of each page), later calf-backed cloth (covers soiled) [Padwick 757...

Auction 22.09.1995
22 Sep 1995
Estimate
£250 - £350
ca. US$389 - US$545
Price realised:
£292
ca. US$454
Auction archive: Lot number 5

ASHLEY-COOPER, Frederick Samuel. W. G. Grace Cricketer; A record of his performances in first class matches , London: John Wisden & Co., [1916], 4°, FIRST EDITION (foldmark to centre of each page), later calf-backed cloth (covers soiled) [Padwick 757...

Auction 22.09.1995
22 Sep 1995
Estimate
£250 - £350
ca. US$389 - US$545
Price realised:
£292
ca. US$454
Beschreibung:

ASHLEY-COOPER, Frederick Samuel. W. G. Grace Cricketer; A record of his performances in first class matches , London: John Wisden & Co., [1916], 4°, FIRST EDITION (foldmark to centre of each page), later calf-backed cloth (covers soiled) [Padwick 7571] -- WG's Little Book , London: George Newnes, [1909], 8°, FIRST EDITION (newspaper clipping tipped onto p. 22), contemporary half morocco gilt by Bayntun, original wrapers bound in at end, g.e. [Padwick 7584] -- Martin Bladen HAWKE, 7th baron, George Robert Canning HARRIS, 4th baron, and Sir Gordon HOME (editors). The Memorial Biography of Dr. W. G. Grace , London: Constable, 1919, 8°, FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, front free endpaper inscribed: "H. S. Altham, Win. Coll July 23 1919," plates (occasional light browning or marginal soiling), original cloth (extremities rubbed, fading to spine) [Padwick 7586]. With 7 other books and pamphlets on Grace, including W. G. Grace's Cricket (Bristol, 1891, trade edition, frontispiece signed by Grace on verso but detached, spine worn), The History of a Hundred Centuries , edited by W. Yardley (1895, covers soiled), H. A. Tate's Life, Scores and Mode of Dismissal of "W.G." 1865 to 1896 (1896, second edition), and How's That? including "A Century of Grace" by Harry Furniss (Bristol, 1896). (10)

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

ASHLEY-COOPER, Frederick Samuel. W. G. Grace Cricketer; A record of his performances in first class matches , London: John Wisden & Co., [1916], 4°, FIRST EDITION (foldmark to centre of each page), later calf-backed cloth (covers soiled) [Padwick 7571] -- WG's Little Book , London: George Newnes, [1909], 8°, FIRST EDITION (newspaper clipping tipped onto p. 22), contemporary half morocco gilt by Bayntun, original wrapers bound in at end, g.e. [Padwick 7584] -- Martin Bladen HAWKE, 7th baron, George Robert Canning HARRIS, 4th baron, and Sir Gordon HOME (editors). The Memorial Biography of Dr. W. G. Grace , London: Constable, 1919, 8°, FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, front free endpaper inscribed: "H. S. Altham, Win. Coll July 23 1919," plates (occasional light browning or marginal soiling), original cloth (extremities rubbed, fading to spine) [Padwick 7586]. With 7 other books and pamphlets on Grace, including W. G. Grace's Cricket (Bristol, 1891, trade edition, frontispiece signed by Grace on verso but detached, spine worn), The History of a Hundred Centuries , edited by W. Yardley (1895, covers soiled), H. A. Tate's Life, Scores and Mode of Dismissal of "W.G." 1865 to 1896 (1896, second edition), and How's That? including "A Century of Grace" by Harry Furniss (Bristol, 1896). (10)

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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