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

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

Lot 1039
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer: £20
‘The Athlete’s Garland. A Collection of Verse of Sport and Pastime’. Compiled by Wallace Rice. A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago 1905. 245pp. Includes fifteen poems on cricket by Rudyard Kipling, E.V. Lucas, E.C. Lefroy, Norman Gale, Andrew Lang, W.S. Gilbert etc. Original maroon cloth boards, gilt illustration and title to front, gilt to spine and top page edges. Not recorded in Padwick. Some rubbing to board and spine extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.

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