London, John Stockdale, 1788 ('a new edition, embellished with an elegant Frontispiece and a Vignette')/ 1788. With the armorial bookplate of Arthur Wood. More about Cynegetica; or, Essays on Sporting. Consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting .. Together with...
Adelaide, Wigg, 1888. Sir William Henry Bundey (1838-1909), for ten years Commodore of the South Australian Yacht Club, was a South Australian MP (Attorney-General, 1878-81) and later a Supreme Court judge. An uncommon book on an uncommon (Australian) topic. More about Reminiscences of Twenty-Five Years' Yachting in Australia. An Essay on Manly Sports, a Cruise on...
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1906. The first Australian golf book of any substance. Daniel Gordon (Dan) Soutar was born in Carmyllie, Scotland in 1882. 'In 1888, his family moved to the nearby seaside resort town of Carnoustie where - over the next 15 or so years - he received a.... More about The Australian Golfer
Edinburgh, R. and R. Clark, 1911. Inscribed and dated (26 December 1913) by the author. More about Famous Scottish Links and other Golfing Papers
London, Horace Cox, 1911. The forty-fifth edition. The author was also author of 'The Gamekeeper's and Game Preserver's Account Book and Diary'. More about Angler's Diary and Tourist Fisherman's Gazetteer of the Rivers and Lakes of the World; to which...
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1911. With the ownership signature of Arnold Edwin Davey (1862-1920), well-known local flour-miller and grain merchant. Not least, big game hunting as well as yachting, steeplechase etcetera... numerous full-page plates (10 in colour). More about King Edward VII as a Sportsman
London, Cassell and Company, 1912. More about The New Book of the Dog. A Comprehensive Natural History of British Dogs and their Foreign...
London, The Field and Queen (Horace Cox), [circa 1913]. More about Wild Life in Central Africa
Sydney, Beatty, Richardson & Co., Printers, 1920. Reminiscences and observations of an Australian Test player. Frank Iredale (1867-1926) played 133 matches for NSW from 1888-1901 and 14 Test matches from 1894-99; these included the 1896 and 1899 tours of England. 'A journalist by profession, Iredale was an Australian selector during... More about 33 Years of Cricket
London, Graphic Publications Ltd, [1921]. Padwick 5027 and 7024. More about Mailey's Googlies. A Series of Sketches and Caricatures of English County and Test Match Cricket,...
London, Methuen, 1922. More about The Science of Golf. A Study in Movement
Garden City, Doubleday, Page and Company, 1923. More about Golf Simplified. Cause and Effect
Adelaide, South Australian Football League Limited (and printed by Lonnen & Cope), 1924. 'Umpires and stewards must report bad language and foul play, such as hitting with the fist and with the elbow. The game, according to the laws, is strong enough, there being no occasion for foulness of any... More about Laws of the Australasian Game of Football as adopted by the Australasian Football Council
Leeds, Chorley and Pickersgill/ The Electric Press and the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1924 and 1950. More about History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1903 - 1923. [Together with] .. 1924 - 1949
London, Thomas Murray, 1925 (first edition). More about The Basis of the Golf Swing
Adelaide, Publishers Limited, Printers, 1925. A gripping contest: Australia, batting first, reached 489, with Ryder 201 not out; England and Australia then put on 365 and 250 respectively. England, set 375, were bowled out just 11 runs short. Padwick II: 2582. More about SA 'Cricketer'. Third Test. Adelaide Jan 16th 1925. Souvenir. Records, Photos, Score Sheets Etc....
New York, McBride, 1926 [first edition]. More about The Foundations of Golf. Dedicated to the Late Beginner
London, Chapman and Hall, 1926. With the ownership signature of Ernest H.M. Baillie, the sportswriter 'BAIL', who possessed an exceptional cricket library (see the MCG website). Includes Australia v England, 1893-1909. Also with the stamps (pocket, card and cancellation datestamp) of the Melbourne Cricket Club library. Catton also writes of... More about Wickets and Goals. Stories of Play
London, Philip Alan, 1926. With the ownership signature of Robert Trimble, son of Hugh Trimble, and (presumably) his relevant annotations on a late blank. Uniform with the author's 'Game Pie'. More about Between the Wickets. An Anthology of Cricket
London, Frederick Warne, 1928. Number 1 in the Warne's 'Recreation' Books series. More about Golf
Adelaide, Printed by Pritchard Brothers, c.1928]. Loosely inserted is an original pencil caricature by Maegraith (dated 1950); on the verso are twelve autographs of WA cricketers (plus the manager, Bryant) dated November 1949. A fund-raiser for charity. More about Wigs and Wags. A Volume of Fun, Facts & Faces about Our Railways. 60 Cartoons
London, Philip Allan, 1929. 'A record of a famous sporting family and its stud...[with] a wealth of racy anecdote and turf history of the nineteenth century'. More about Sykes of Sledmere. The Record of a Sporting Family and Famous Stud
London, The London Publishing Co., 1930. More about Cricketing Memories
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. 'Dedicated to Bowlers (the Cinderellas of Cricket)'. More about Getting Wickets
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. More about Getting Wickets
Adelaide, South Australian Cricket Association, 1933. 'International Cricket. England v. Australia. Souvenir of Visit of MCC Team. October 1932 to March 1933. Third Test Match ...' [cover title]. More about Souvenir of English Cricketers' Visit to Adelaide. Third Test Match. January 13, 1933
Adelaide, Rigby, 1933. '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... More about Bodywhine. A Treatise on the Jardinian Theory. Cartoons by R.W. Blundell
Glebe, Simmons Limited (Printers), [1933]. Padwick 6881. More about Cricket Sketches and Short Stories by Arthur Mailey, the Australian Googly Bowler, 1932-33
London, Dent, 1934 (revised and reset)/ 1911. More about P.F. Warner's Book of Cricket
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1934 (first English edition)/ 1932. More about Tricking the Batsman
London, Seeley, Service, [1935]/ 1931. Volume X in the Lonsdale Library. Loosely inserted are three illustrated advertising items; The Angler's Weekend Book, staple bound, 8 pages, fine; Greased Line Fishing for Salmon, a 2 page flyer folded in the middle, excellent [and] The Lonsdale Library 'bookmark' (printed on both sides)... More about Salmon Fishing
[Sydney, Wrigley's, 1936]. Signed on the front cover by Don Bradman and Len Darling (who has also signed below his portrait near the centre of the booklet); Bill O'Reilly has signed the inside rear cover. More about The Ashes, 1936-1937. The Wrigley Souvenir Book and Scoring Records [cover title
Adelaide, Osborne, 1937. 'Fourth Test Match. English v Australia. Adelaide. Jan. 29th. 1937' (cover title). Padwick 4499. More about Official Souvenir of the English Cricketers' Visit to Adelaide. Fourth Test Match commencing...
London, Methuen, 1939. More about Putting and Spared Shots
London, Collins, November 1940 [second impression]/ October 1940. Reminiscences of the famous 'Times' golf correspondent (and grandson of the more famous Charles). More about Life is Sweet, Brother
Sydney, Lawn Tennis Association of Australia, 1946. The honour of organising this, the first post-war Davis Cup competition, and of making the draw, fell to Australia, the holder of the trophy since 1939. 'Challenges by Italy and Hungary were rejected by Australia on the grounds that for 1946 at least... More about Official Souvenir. 1946 Davis Cup Challenge Round.. Kooyong, Australia. December 26, 27 and 28, 1946
London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1948]. More about Grimmett on Cricket. A Practical Guide
Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1949. The author was 'Captain of the Fiji team touring New Zealand, 1948'. Loosely inserted is the original 1948 hand-written receipt for the book. More about Cricket in the Fiji Islands
Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1949. The author was 'Captain of the Fiji team touring New Zealand, 1948'. More about Cricket in the Fiji Islands
London, Hollis and Carter, 1950. Illustrations by the author. The companion to 'Dark Estuary'. More about Tide's Ending
Melbourne, The Author, 1950. More about Studies of an Angler
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1950 [third impression]/ 1943. Inscribed 'To Chris, Wishing you a very Happy Birthday. Don Bradman 1/11/51'. We know this to be a present from Don to a child the Bradmans fostered, as we bought it in 2002 from the recipient (and have just got around to cataloguing it!). More about Marmaduke the Possum
Melbourne, The Author, 1950. More about Studies of an Angler
London, News Chronicle, 1953. More about News Chronicle Cricket Annual 1953
Tralee, The Kerryman, [1954]. The history, the colour and the pageantry of Ireland's thirty-five packs of foxhounds and staghounds. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards. More about Irish Hunting
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1956/ 1954. More about Tench. How to Catch Them
Eden Gardens, Cricket Association of Bengal, 1956. More about Cricket Association of Bengal. Eden Gardens, Calcutta. Silver Jubilee 1929-1954
