Bert Oldfield (8 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 287pp. B/w photographic frontispiece, b/w photographs throughout. Not library copy, name/date in ink to ffep. (53/4).

Reminiscences of keeping wicket for Australia in the 1920's including four tours to England. Small 8vo. 160pp. 20 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper, very good.

Cricket autobiography of William Albert Stanley Oldfield (1894-1976), fine Australian wicket-keeper and gentleman of the game who, when hit on the head by Larwood in the Adelaide Test of the Bodyline series, said it was "my own fault". When Larwood settled in Australia the two became great pals. 8vo. 287pp. Frontispiece, 16 plates. Some light foxing to page edges. Dust-wrapper, rubbed and creased with chip to top of spine. Good condition.

Bert Oldfield gives advice on wicket-keeping and captaincy. Also includes long tributes to Oldfield from Jack Hobbs and Neville Cardus. Seems to have been published to help promote Oldfield's Sports Store in Sydney. Paperback. Stapled booklet. 8vo. 16pp. Very good condition.

Cricket autobiography. Reminiscences of keeping wicket for Australia in the 1920's including four tours to England. Small 8vo. 160pp. 20 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper,very good. Signed, dated and dedicated by Bert Oldfield to front endpaper. There is also a further hand-written note by Oldfield slipped in, asking the recipient to bring back a box of cigars from London. The recipient was Russell Page, who was the Liaison Officer on the SS Orsova, and seemed to be a personal friend of Oldfield.

Cricket autobigraphy of William Albert Stanley Oldfield (1894-1976), fine Australian wicket-keeper and gentleman of the game who, when hit on the head by Larwood in the Adelaide Test of the Bodyline series, said it was "my own fault". When Larwood settled in Australia the two became great pals. 8vo. 287pp. Frontispiece, 16 plates. Dust-wrapper, a little rubbed and creased with small losses to corners. Light damp stain to edge of first few pages, not affecting text. Beautifully inscribed, signed and dated by Oldfield to the fly-leaf.

William Albert Oldfield (1894-1976), described by Jack Hobbs as the 'best wicketkeeper of his time', played for NSW and Australia, and his Test career of 54 matches ran from 1920 to 1937. This photograph is a fine sepia-toned head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Oldfield in a suit; he has signed and dated it (1926) in ink in the bottom right-hand corner, above the ink signature of the photographer May Moore. The image size is 280 × 180 mm, and it is now archivally matted, ready for framing. New Zealand-born May Moore (1881-1931) emigrated to Australia in 1910 and opened her first studio the following year in Sydney. Working initially together with her sister Mina (who ran her own studio in Melbourne from 1916), her excellent portrait photography attracted a large clientele, especially among artistic circles. May in particular photographed many Sydney celebrities, and it is not surprising to find that the cricketing heroes of the day made it to her studio. With 'a studio style using dramatic single source lighting, dark backgrounds, rich brown toned papers and sombre colour mounts, and favouring head and shoulder studies . [the sisters] were extraordinary in their ability to portray a range of moods appropriate to their sitters' (Gael Newton). Illness forced her to retire about 1928, and she died of cancer in 1931.