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(With an essay in character by Sir Andrew Macphail. (London: Hodder and Stoughton: 1919) Copyright 1919 by GP Putnam's Sons. Dec. cl. pp. 168. Frontispiece with tissue guard present. Very good.
In Flanders Field And Other Poems. With An Essay in Character By Sir Andrew Macphail by McCRAE, Lieut.-Col. John, M.D - 1919
by McCRAE, Lieut.-Col. John, M.D
In Flanders Field And Other Poems. With An Essay in Character By Sir Andrew Macphail
by McCRAE, Lieut.-Col. John, M.D
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Toronto: William Briggs, 1919. First edition, containing the most popular poem of the Great War. Dr. McCrae was attached to the British Army's 1st Artillery Brigade on the Ypres Saleint until June 1915, and then made Head of No. 3 General Hospital at Bolougne. Just before his death of pneumonia in January 1918, he was appointed Consulting Physician to the British Armies in France. Front inner hinge cracking, otherwise a very good copy in the rare dust jacket, somewhat soiled with chips in the edges at a few places and with a closed tear in the back panel. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth, dust jacket. Front inner hinge cracking, otherwise a very good copy in the rare dust jacket, somewhat soiled with chips in the edges at a few places and with a closed tear in the back panel.
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- Date Published 1919
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In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
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In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. Hardcover. Very good condition. Poetry from W.W.I. Flanders Fields is a common English name of W.W.I battle fields in Belgium and France. With a character essay of McCrae by Sir Andrew Macphail. The well known poem 'In Flanders Fields' by McCrae published in facsimile on p15. Presentation copy given to W. Hastings Anderson, head of the Staff College in 1919 by James Dundas. Anderson [1872 - 1930] served in the 2nd Boer War and was Chief of Staff of the First Army in W.W.I. Dundas [1883 - 1966] was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1917. Sml 8vo, 168pp, blue cloth boards, gilt title on spine and front with decoration, frontis. Two silvertone photographs of the areas of Avelvy and Guedecourt from Guards Cemetery Les Boeufs, laid down with captions by Dundas. Both are cemeteries for fallen Allied forces. Light damp mark at top of one plate; pencil notation below poem 'The Anxious Dead' on p17, 'Aug-Nov 1918'. Spine rubbed at tips and corners, otherwise vgc.
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