Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Bookplate inside. Writing inside. (WWI, poetry).
Published by Erskine Macdonald 1916, 1916
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Language: English
Published by Erskine Macdonald, 1916
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing (the Trench Edition). Hardback in light brown cloth, titled to upper board and spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. 17.5 × 11cm, 106pp + 4pp ads. A collection of poems from the early years of the Great War, all written by serving men of all ranks. Poets include Julian Grenfell (d. 1915), William Noel Hodgson (as Edward Melbourne) (d. 1916), Charles Hamilton Sorley (d. 1915), and John William Streets (d. 1916), and also lesser known poets such as E J L Garstin, G Rountree Harvey, Dyneley Hussey, Sydney Oswald, A Victor Ratcliffe (d. 1916) among others. Condition: This copy is in good condition for age. Some tanning to the spine, light occasional foxing but otherwise in very good solid condition.