£350
FIRST EDITION, NO. 142 OF 200 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 4to, pp. 14, [2]. Bound with original wrappers in contemporary cloth, front board lettered in black. Light spotting to front wrapper. Cloth a bit soiled. Signed by the author and dated 1922 on the half-title, bookplate of Philip Gosse to pastedown.
The rare first separate publication of this paean to rugby union, inspired by a varsity match at Queen's Club. Sir John Collings Squire was editor of the London Mercury, in which the poem was first published, before this private printing of just 50 large paper signed copies and 200 regular. The regular copies are rarer to find signed; this example is from the library of Philip Gosse, the authority on pirate literature.
