Vintage Cricket Bat by Gradidge, London in Willow

Wellington Cricket bat. A good willow cricket bat stamped 'TRADE MARK WELLINGTON' with the Wellington trade mark on the shoulders of the bat. The embossin...

Juniors Willow Cricket Bat. A good juniors willow cricket bat. The bat with no decipherable makers name. A nice decorative bat with good patina.

Juniors Willow Cricket Bat. A good quality willow cricket bat 'The Nonpareil'. The two shoulders stamped 'W.J. Breeden', blade syamped to the front and rear 'The Nonpareil, Extra Spe...

Vintage Nicolls Cricket Bat. A good Nicolls willow cricket bat 'White Toe'. The writing on the front of the blade 'NICOLLS, White Toe, Toughened And Damp Proof, Patent No. ??????, Me...

Vintage Ted Dexter cricket bat by Gray Nicolls. A good clean willow cricket bat, marked on the face 'Ted Dexter, Autograph' with 'Gray Nicolls' on both shoulders. A nice clean bat w...

Curved early oak cricket bat. An unusual shaped, heavy weight, one piece cricket bat of the style used in the 1770s. The blade has an inward bow, convex surface, instead of being fl...

An extraordinary one off over-sized cricket bat, polished teak with a string-bound handle.

Very rare extra large champion cricket bat by N Cochrane, Trade Sign This is an unusual piece it is in remarkably good condition, it is made in ash by the manufacturer to be used as an advertising piece...

Cricket bat cane stand, with a brass circular rack made with spiral rope supports with two flame finials.

'Cricket' by W.G. Grace. Bristol/ London, J.W. Arrowsmith etc., 1891, VIII,489p., woodengr. frontisp., ills., orig. cl.

'Cricketing Reminiscences' by W.G. Grace. London, James Bowden, 1899, XX,524,31,(1)p., photo-engr. Frontisp. Portrait of the author, 49 (photogr.) plates, orig. Blindst. cl. w. Mount...

A rare first edition, with near-fine dust jacket of the children's classic. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows; with a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London: Methuen and Co., 1908. First Edition. 8vo. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (190 x 120 mm). pp. [1] + viii + 302 + i. Laid paper, deckle edges, t.e.g. With a captioned frontispieces, "And a River went out of Eden", on coated paper after a pen-and-ink drawing by Walford Graham Robertson (1866 – 1948); tissue guard. Original blue-green cloth with gilt illustration on the spine (Toad dressed in a driving outfit and goggles) and upper cover ( Pan playing flute to Rat and Mole by the river) and a single gilt rule on the upper cover. In the second issue publisher's pictorial peach-color dust jacket printed in black with price of 7/6 instead of 6/-.The spine of the dust jacket slightly darkened but in excellent condition with a couple small tears at head expertly repaired on verso; scattered foxing and discoloration to dust jacket and pages, wear to spine edges consistent with age. [Grolier: One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature, no.61; Osborne I, p. 349; Hunt p. 45 & 66; Hahn, D. Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, p. 241-242] Condition: Near fine in Near fine dust-jacket. This is the FIRST EDITION with a SCARCE DUST JACKET of one of the essential classics of children's literature. The book is based on bedtime stories that the Scottish-born banker and author Kenneth Grahame...