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I found these 2 over in Clitheroe yesterday. Cost me £1.49.
First up "Eric Knowles Antiques" big chunky book hardbacked first edition from 2006 signed by the man hiself, Local lad too.
Eric Knowles (born 19 February 1953 in Nelson, Lancashire, England) is a British antiques expert whose main interest is in ceramics.
Eric joined Bonham’s auctioneers as a porter in the ceramics department in 1976 and became head of the department in 1981. By 1992 he was given responsibility for setting up Bonham's offices in Bristol. He has since returned to London to continue with directing the Decorative Arts Department.
He first became famous after being a ceramics expert on the Antiques Roadshow. He has also appeared in such programmes as, Going for a Song, Going, Going, Gone, Noel's House Party, Call My Bluff and 20th Century Roadshow. He has presented the 20 episodes of Restoration Roadshow on BBC for several weeks in the summer of 2010 (ending 3 September) He is the challenger setter and adjudicator on BBC Two's Antiques Master assisting host Sandi Toksvig. As of 2012, he is on the UK TV show Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Second up is a hardbacked first edition from 2007 titled "Wasted" signed by Author Paul Smith, Ex Cricketer. Again £1.49.
Paul Andrew Smith born April 15, 1964 in Gosforth, Northumberland is a former English cricketer who played for Warwickshire from 1982 to 1996. He represented England in the Hong Kong and Singapore Sixes.
A mercurial allrounder, Smith was a big hitting right-handed batsman and genuinely fast right arm bowler. He made four first class hundreds in his 221-game career, the first when he was just 19, and in 1986 he became the youngest Warwickshire player to score 1,500 runs in a season. Won anunpresidented Treble in 1994. Was Man of the Match in the Warwickshire v Worcestershire Benson and Hedges final (1994). Won a double in 1995. Played in 6 Lords one day finals.
Along with opening partner Andy Moles, Smith holds a world record after the pair shared 8 consecutive opening partnerships of 50 plus. In first class cricket he scored a total of 8173 runs at 26.44 with a best of 140. With the ball he took 283 wickets at 35.72 which included two hat-tricks and a best of 6 for 91. Always a potent force in the one day game, able to turn a match with bat or ball, he won 3 titles with Warwickshire in the 50 over game and won all domestic tropies several times. His one-day career saw him amass a combined 4430 runs and 234 wickets.
Late in his career, Smith drew great pride from becoming the first white cricketer to play for Cape Town club St Augustine’s during the dismantling of apartheid. This sprang directly from the recommendation of former Warwickshire coach, the late Bob Woolmer, and carried a cultural significance as St Augustine’s CC had famously once been the cricketing home of the legendary Basil D’Oliviera.
He retired in 1996 and soon after was quoted in a Sunday tabloid as having admitted to drug use in the latter stages of his career.
Nce one for my Cricket Collection.
