Item #142107 Soldiers and Sportsmen. An Account of the Sporting Activities of the Australian Imperial Force during the Period between November 1918 and September 1919. Lieutenant George Hubert GODDARD.

GODDARD, Lieutenant George Hubert

Soldiers and Sportsmen. An Account of the Sporting Activities of the Australian Imperial Force during the Period between November 1918 and September 1919

London, AIF Sports Control Board (and printed by the Rosebery Press), 1919.

Octavo, [ii] (title page, verso blank), 118 pages plus 13 pages of plates (12 full-page) and the 'With Compliments' slip of the publisher (printed in red and bound in before the title page).

Purple cloth (lettered in gilt on the front cover) lightly flecked and marked, and rubbed and bumped at the extremities (with associated bumping to the corners of the text block); spine lightly sunned; a very good copy.

The plate depicting the AIF Cricket Team accompanying the relevant fourteen-page chapter contains some familiar names: Gregory, Oldfield, Pellew ... Dornbusch 235; Fielding and O'Neill, page 246.

Provenance: Lucy Lockett Ayers (1886-1971), a granddaughter of Sir Henry Ayers, with her pencilled ownership signature on the front free endpaper.