The Athlete’s Garland: A Collection of Verse of Sport and Pastime.
signed first edition
1905 · Chicago
by Rice, Wallace, comp.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1905. First edition. This copy is inscribed and signed on the half-title, “To / Clara Elizabeth Laughlin / with the affectionate esteem / of Wallace Rice / Christmas 1905.” Clara E. Laughlin (1873-1941) was the author of more than 35 books, headed a Travel Service with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris, and published a monthly magazine with a circulation of more than 80,000. Duodecimo, bound by Sickles in blue-green levant & marbled boards, with the gilt-stamped monogram of Charles Edward Ballard, hotelier and circus owner, on the upper panel of the front cover, gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, 245 pp. Fine. (Inventory #: 71282bd)