b'35The Cecil Cooke Collection of Cricket Memorabilia224BERT OLDFIELD: An undated Cricketers Club of New South Wales Christmas card from Oldfield to Cecil Cooke with pen signature and written message, attractively framed and glazed together with an original photograph of Oldfield with two visiting cricketers outside Oldfields sports store in the early 70s. Also, a signed and dedicated example of Oldfields book The Rattle of the Stumps with dust jacket. (2 items). Frame size 48 x 57.5cm. $300500225SIR JOHN HOBBS and HERBERT SUTCLIFFE: Original postcard size photographs, the first signed in pen by Hobbs. Attractively mounted, framed and glazed together with a later image of the English opening pair going out to bat. 41 x 41cm overall.They both shared 26 opening stands of more than 100 runs, including three in succession against Australia in 1924-25.$100200 226Don Bradman, tin-plate Sidney Riley Studios photo (35 x 24.5cm) showing Bradman in his batting stance, c1929, with facsimile autograph (and additional feint inscription). Horizontal crack, but extremely scarce; only one other example known to us. $100200227DON BRADMAN personally signed and dedicated books: Don Bradmans Book [Hutchinson, London, 1930] and The Art of Cricket [Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1958]. (2 items). .$200250228A COMPREHENSIVE CRICKET LIBRARY: More than 500 volumes, with a high percentage being hardcover (with dust jackets) and covering all aspects of the game. Cooke was particularly interested in biographies and auto-biographies and the history of the game. We noted a small number of duplicates and a small number of signed examples. .$1,0002,000229229A RARE PRE-TOUR PROGRAMME: M.C.C. in South Africa 1930-1931 Official souvenir. Golden Jubilee Number. Authorised by the Transvaal Cricket Union. Original cream wrappers with titles in green print.$200250230Postcards: 1936 photogravure portrait postcards Australian & English Cricketers 1936-37 incomplete set (11) including Duckworth, Fingleton, Oldfield, McCabe, OReilly and Woolley. Mainly fine. .$200300'