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DENNYS (Richard [Molesworth])
There Is No Death. Poems by Richard Dennys.
With a Foreword by Desmond Coke. 2nd Ed., 110pp., 195x138mm, portrait frontis. John Lane, Bodley Head.
1918
#58519
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War and other poetry, with a biographical note by Captain Desmond Coke (a pre-war friend who was coincidentally adjutant of his battalion). Captain Richard Molesworth Dennys was Ed. at Winchester and Bart's, qualifying as a surgeon, but did not practise medicine, working instead with Gordon Craig on a theatre project in Florence. He was commissioned in 1914, 10th (Service) Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, became a company commander during service in France; wounded at Contalmaison, Somme, 12th July 1916 and Died of Wounds at the British General Hospital at Rouen on the 24th inst. He is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, and was thirty-two years old. 1st Ed. was published in 1917 & neither is easily found. Orig. green cloth, gilt, sp. dull, overall somewhat rubbed & worn but sound. [Reilly p.110].
£90
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WYLLY (Col. H.C.)
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
1st Ed., Vol. I only, xxiii+407pp., 4to, illus. & maps. RUSI.
1933
#52998
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Substantial & scarce history: Vol. I ony containing history from 1741-1914 (Peninsula, Indian Mutiny, Crimea, Boer War &c.). Orig. red cloth, gilt, rather rubbed & worn, ex-lib. RHQ Grenadier Guards, but sound for reference.
£30
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WYLLY (Col. H.C.)
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
1st Ed., 2 Vols., xxiii+407 & xx+432pp., 4to, 48 illus., 39 maps. RUSI.
1933
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Substantial & scarce history: Vol. I to 1914 (Peninsula, India, Crimea, Boer War &c.); Vol. II 1914-18. (inc. TF & Service bns.): Western Front, German East Africa (inc. landing at Tanga), Gallipoli, Mespot &c. Orig. red cloth, gilt, sps. little stained & worn o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£120
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