My new cricket book out just in time for Christmas is A Pictorial History of Australian Test Cricket. It’s my biggest and one of my best books yet. Here are some highlights: YEARS ago I bought a huge collection of books and brilliant original photos from Casino in country New South Wales, and on arrival, […]
Arthur Mailey was an Australian spin bowling giant between the wars. Most notably his nine wicket haul in a single innings in Melbourne remains the best by an Australian in Ashes cricket. Arthur was also a multi-talented artist whose 1920s caricatures books, penned while he was playing, are among the most sought by lovers of […]
One of the privileges of handling cricket books for a living are the gems which come along every now and again. I can still remember my excitement at meeting a gentlemen in the Melbourne suburbs on the way to a cricket match and purchasing some of the oldest and rarest early Cricketana from him, including […]
Newly acquired and for sale is a set of all seven ORIENT LINE brochure booklets from the 1928-29 MCC Australian tour through to the 1938 Australian tour of the UK.
