Latest News & Items

What is the England v Australia Ashes Origin Story?

14th November 2025

What is the England v Australia Ashes Origin Story? As we all know, the England v Australia rivalry in cricket goes back a long way but do you know the details of the Ashes Origin Story?  The first test match between the two countries was in 1877 when James Lillywhite led an England team on […]

Nils Middelboe – Chelsea FC’s first Foreign Player

16th October 2025

A bit of Ryder Cup History

11th September 2025

We’re eagerly awaiting the start of this year’s Ryder Cup. We’ve been testing ourselves – and failing – on what we know about its history. So we did a bit of digging and here’s what we found: Samuel Ryder originally sponsored the Ryder Cup after watching a friendly transatlantic match at Wentworth in 1926. Ryder […]

Football » Football Books » Football Club Histories (A-C) » A HISTORY OF THE CORINTHIAN FOOTBALL CLUB

A HISTORY OF THE CORINTHIAN FOOTBALL CLUB

A HISTORY OF THE CORINTHIAN FOOTBALL CLUB
A HISTORY OF THE CORINTHIAN FOOTBALL CLUB

Click to zoom

Product image thumbnail
Product image thumbnail

SIGNED

The definitive work on the club, written by one of its playing members. This is a key work of reference which throws out some fascinating reminiscences of the game from the early 19th century. This work pre-dates the club's amalgamation in 1939 with 'The Casuals'.

First Edition. Large 8vo. x + 282pp. Frontispiece (tissue-guard), 8 plates. Original dark blue cloth, very clean. Attractive dust-wrapper, rubbed to edges with small chips to ends of spine. A couple of Press cuttings about the author are slipped in. Good condition. This copy is signed and dedicated by the author on the title-page to the well-known football collector Bryan Horsnell, from whose collection this comes.

Date
1933
Publisher
Longmans, Green
Author
Frederick Norman Smith CREEK

£175.00 (Code: 90600)

Add to basket
Adding...