Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025

Lot 1002
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £300
‘Eight Poems from Clifford Bax’. Privately printed for Bax as a 12pp Christmas card 1928. Comprises twelve poems, the final poem ‘A Dead Cricketer’ was republished the following year retitled ‘Corsham Cricket’ in Lakenham’s book commemorating Fred Hulbert, a Corsham cricket stalwart who died in 1928. This copy is addressed to the title page in ink by Bax to ‘Muriel and Maitland Radford’ and, at the foot of the page ‘And from Vera Bax too, with every good wish’. Tipped in to modern red cloth, original paper wrappers retained, gilt title to spine. Not listed in Padwick. Very scarce and in very good condition.

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