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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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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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DEARMER (Geoffrey)
Poems.
1st Ed., viii+88pp. Heinemann.
1918
#65323
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Geoffrey Dearmer (son of Mabel Dearmer) was the longest surviving Great War poet, dying in 1996 aged 103. He served with the Royal Fusiliers at Gallipoli (where his brother Christopher, to whom the first poem is dedicated, was killed at Suvla Bay on 6th Oct. 1915 with the RNAS) & later with the ASC in France. Contains seven poems written in the Dardanelles, sixteen in (or relating to) the BEF in France & thirteen 'miscellaneous' poems. Orig. limp wraps., maroon & grey with title in red to sp., over plain paper, VG & scarce 1st Edition. See illustration on our website.
£145
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GRAVES (Robert)
Goodbye to All That: An Autobiography.
1st USA Ed., [xi]+430pp., portait frontis., 4 plates, 4 maps. VG in sl. chipped dw. NY: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith.
1930
#60064
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Classic Western Front memoirs of poet & infantry officer. 1st & 2nd Bns. RWF, Loos, Somme, &c. Nice copy of 1st USA edition: orig. red cloth, gilt, VG in sl. chipped & neatly repaired dw. See illustrations on our website.
£220
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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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MACGILL (Patrick)
Soldier Songs.
1st Ed., 120pp. Herbert Jenkins.
1917
#62436
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Poetry written while serving with the London Irish Rifles in France. Orig. green cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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MACGILL (Patrick)
Soldier Songs.
1st Ed., 120pp. Herbert Jenkins.
1917
#64411
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Poetry written while serving with the London Irish Rifles in France. Orig. green cloth, titled in black, VG, nice clean copy. See illustration on our website.
£30
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OSBORN (E.B.)
The New Elizabethans: A First Selection of the Lives of Young Men who have Fallen in the Great War.
1st Ed., xiii+311pp., 30 plates. John Lane.
1919
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Memoirs of 25 notable officers who fell, with portraits &c. Includes Brian Brooke, Harry Butters, Ivar Campbell, Charles Lister, Charlton brothers, Grenfell brothers, Hodgson, Tom Kettle et al. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little rubbed & worn, generally VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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REILLY (Catherine W.)
English Poetry of the First World War: A Bibliography.
1st Ed., xxi+402pp. NY: St. Martin's.
1978
#63393
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Useful listings with notes on military service of the poets. VG. See illustration on our website.
£20
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TOVEY (Duncan [Glen-Worple])
Grey Kilts: A Collection of War Verse & Other Trifles of the Old Territorial & Volunteer Days.
1st Ed., 94pp., portrait frontis. VG in dw. London Scottish Regimental Gazette.
1918
#67059
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Verse, inc. war poems, by former NCO of 14th London Regt. (London Scottish) who died in England in 1918 whilst a Lt. at the NRA School of Musketry. Paper covd., boards, VG in sl. chipped dw & scarce thus. See illustrations on our website.
£75
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