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BOWMAN (A.A.)
Sonnets from a Prison Camp.
1st Ed., xi+152pp. Lane.
1919
#62902
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Poetry with war &/or PoW themes. Bowman, a subaltern in the HLI, was captured in April 1918 & incarcerated in the Offizier-Gefangenenlager at Hesepe. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, sp. dull o/w VG & inscribed by the author: "With kind regards, A.A. Bowman Christmas 1921." See illustrations on our website.
£45
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BRERETON (Frederick) Comp.
An Anthology of War Poems.
With an Introduction by Edmund Blunden. 2nd Imp., 191pp. VG in chipped dw. Collins.
1930
#67971
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A wide & early selection of the soldier poets (Aldington; Bewsher; Binyon; the all-but-forgotten Frederick V. Branford; Brooke; Dearmer; Graves; Gurney; Hardy; Owen; Rosenberg; Sassoon; Sorley; Brett Young et al.) Orig. wheat cloth with green paper sp. label, little rubbed & worn, generally VG in chipped dw. See illustration on our website.
£30
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CANDOLE (Alec de)
A Rubaiyat of the Trenches.
By de C. [i.e. Alec de Candole]. 1st Ed., 63pp. 195x117mm. VG in chipped dw. Fawcett & Co.
1917
#59206
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A long narrative poem. Alec Corry Vully de Candole was Ed. at Marlborough, left in 1916 to be commissioned in the Wiltshire Regiment, wounded with the 4th Bn. in Oct. 1917 then attd. 49th Bn. MGC, and was Killed in Action in France on 3rd September 1918. He was twenty-one and is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension. Blue paper covd. boards with white cloth backstrip & paper label to front, VG in dw & rare thus, although little chipped & rear panel torn with loss. [Not in Reilly]. See illustration on our website.
£145
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CHAPMAN (Guy, OBE, MC) Comp. & Ed.
Vain Glory: A Miscellany of the Great War 1914-1918 written by those who fought in it on each side & on all fronts.
1st Ed., xviii+762pp. VG in dw. Cassell.
1937
#67193
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Unsurpassed wide-ranging anthology of work by 200 authors: "an attempt to display the War... through the eyes of those who took an active part..." that includes much of the finest writing on the war. Orig. cloth, VG in sl. chipped dw. Nice copy. See illustration on our website.
£65
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CLARK (T.B.)
Poems of a Private: A Souvenir of France & Salonica.
10h Ed., 64pp., portrait frontis. Nicholson & Sons. nd (c.1918)
#62899
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The author also published "Rhymes of a Rifleman: A Souvenir of the Trenches" & various "broadsides." He served as a rifleman in the KRRC in France & Salonika, & verses in this work were written on both Fronts. Part of the profits of the book were destined for St. Dunstan's Hostel for blinded Sailors & Soldiers. Little chipped, near VG, & considering that this is the 10th Edition, remarkably scarce. See illustration on our website.
£25
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DAY (Jeffery, Flight-Commander, RNAS)
Poems & Rhymes.
2nd Ed., 66pp., portrait frontis. Sidgwick & Jackson.
1925
#64144
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Miles Jeffery Game Day was born in 1896, Ed. at Repton; received a commission in the RNAS & was shot down & KiA 27/2/1918. He had previously won the DSC over the Western Front. Contains a short memoir and a selection of war poems. 2nd Ed., orig. pale blue cloth with paper sp. label, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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DAY (Jeffery, Flight-Commander, RNAS)
Poems & Rhymes.
2nd Ed., 66pp., portrait frontis. VG in dw. Sidgwick & Jackson.
1925
#68040
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Miles Jeffery Game Day was born in 1896, Ed. at Repton; received a commission in the RNAS & was shot down & KiA 27/2/1918. He had previously won the DSC over the Western Front. Contains a short memoir and a selection of war poems. 2nd Ed., orig. pale blue cloth with paper sp. label, VG in dw with inscription "From the Poet's Mother." See illustrations on our website.
£65
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HARVEY (F.W.)
A Gloucestershire Lad at Home & Abroad.
5th Imp., xv+64pp. VG in sl. rubbed dw. Sidgwick & Jackson.
1918
#62897
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Poems written at the front prior to the poet's being taken PoW; most originally appeared in the '5th Glosters Gazette.' Orig. plain blue cloth, VG in dw with titles to front & sp. Uncommon in dw. See illustration on our website.
£35
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HORNE (Cyril Morton)
Songs of the Shrapnel Shell and Other Verses.
2nd Imp., 71pp., 199x136mm, portrait frontis. Chicago: The Page Publishing Co.
1918
#67990
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Mainly war poems & some pre-war compositions. Cyril Horne was Killed in Action on 27th January 1916 whilst serving as a Captain with the 7th (Service) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. A former regular soldier, he was touring America doing impersonations on the stage as "Bobbie" Horne, when war came and he rejoined his regiment. He was twenty-nine and is buried in Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery. Contains a short biographical note followed by poems. Orig. green cloth, gilt to front & sp., VG. Reilly p.173. See illustrations on our website.
£65
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KLAXON [Pseud. of BOWER (John Graham)]
On Patrol.
1st Ed., ix+236pp. VG in dw. Blackwood.
1919
#62335
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A long narrative poem of sea service during the Great War. Commander John Graham Bower, DSO, was a regular RN officer who commanded several submarines during the war (& was also author of "The Story of Our Submarines"). Orig. blue cloth, titled in black, VG in dw & very scarce thus. Rare, especially in dw. See illustration on our website.
£165
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