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In Flanders Fields and Other Poems.
by McCRAE, John
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons,, 1919. First American edition, first printing, issued simultaneously with the Canadian edition. The first appearance of this poem in book form. This copy is from the library of the noted American bibliophile and lawyer Frank J. Hogan, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. John McCrae (1872-1918) was a Canadian physician who served as a medical officer first in the Boer War and later during the second battle of Ypres. "In Flanders Fields", McCrae's most famous First World War poem, printed here posthumously, was originally published in Punch magazine in December 1915. It became popular almost immediately upon publication and was used to inspire young people in the US to enlist. Its images have since become "part of the collective memory of war" (Giddings, p. 55). Octavo. Original blue straight-grain cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and within decorative oval frame on front cover, frame to front cover blocked in blind, top edge gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt on spine, with matching chemise. Frontispiece with tissue guard, 3 plates including 2 facsimiles, one of an autograph copy of the poem and one of a sketch by the author. Bookseller's ticket of Peabody's, Baltimore to front pastedown. Spine ends bumped, light rubbing to extremities, faint splash marks to edges; shallow chipping to jacket edges, short closed tear to foot of rear flap fold, a few small tape repairs to verso, jacket flaps without price as issued: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Robert Giddings, The War Poets, 1988.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 167720
- Title
- In Flanders Fields and Other Poems.
- Author
- McCRAE, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons,
- Date Published
- 1919
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Verso
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
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