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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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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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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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SEROWE, South African Heavy Artillery. [Pseud. of LYNCH (J.)]
War Memories. A Book of Verse Written in the Camps & In The Field During the Great War.
1st Ed., [ii]+44pp. Underhill & Co., Frankfort St., Plymouth. [1919]
#67792
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Small (168x116mm) but rare volume of war poetry: just one copy on JISC/Library Hub (at Univ. of Cambridge). Not in Reilly. Orig. green paper covd. boards with gilt title & SAHA badge to front. See illustration on our website.
£75
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TURNER (Walter James)
The Hunter & other Poems.
1st Ed., 76pp. S&J.
1916
#68596
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Includes some war poems. Author served with RGA Anti-Aircraft Section. Reilly p.319, Orig. grey cloth with paper sp. label, VG. See illustration on our website.
£35
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