Buy this book on-line JOHN STANHOPE ARKWRIGHT : The Supreme Sacrifice and Other Poems in Time of War. With illustrations by Bruce Bairnsfather, Wilmot Lunt, Louis Raemaekers and L.Raven-HillSkeffington & Son Ltd., London, 1919
First Edition (first printing). Royal 8vo. 78pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and upper board. Illustrated with ten plates. Free endpapers browned, and with a little light spotting to the reverse of the plate leaves. A tiny dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown and a light crease to the base of a dozen consecutive leaves. A very good copy. Thirty-six Great War poems (plus one from the Second Boer War), and including Welsh and Latin translations of the title verse (the basis for the hymn 'O Valiant Hearts'). Sir John Stanhope Arkwright, the great-great grandson of Sir Richard Arkwright, was MP for Hereford between 1900-1912. In 1893 he was awarded the Newdigate poetry prize and throughout the First World War he toured the country giving recruitment speeches, writing many of these poems on those travels. Reilly p.42.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of JOHN STANHOPE ARKWRIGHT : The Supreme Sacrifice and Other Poems in Time of War. With illustrations by Bruce Bairnsfather, Wilmot Lunt, Louis Raemaekers and L.Raven-Hill. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, incunabula, first editions, antiquarian books and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |