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Dunsany, Lord.
War Poems.
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1941
Stock Code: 15252
First edition. Duodecimo, pp., 101, [1]. Publisher’s original teal paper-covered boards; titled in maroon to spine and upper board; white end-papers. Former ownership inscriptions in ink to front free end-paper, and to end. Spine slightly sunned; lower board bumped to foot; light soiling to boards; top edge a little dusty. Contents clean save for inscriptions mentioned above. A very good copy. A collection of War Poetry by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer and poet Lord Dunsany (1878-1957). Dunsany had an extensive military career; he was Second Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards in the Second Boer War, Captain in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Derry, and served in the later stages of the First World War. The poems here are mostly concerned with the Second World War, where Dunsany served as part of the British Home Guard at Shoreham, which was the most bombed town during the Battle of Britain. £65.00