ADMIRALS ALL AND OTHER VERSES. Thirty-Second Edition. 'Of the numbers contained in this book six are reprinted.from Longman's Magazine, four from the St. James's Gazette, three from the Spectator, and one from the Monthly Review.'

NEWBOLT, HENRY.

Verlag: Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street., London, 1913

Beschreibung

Small 8vo. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. 40 pp. Bound in half green leather, gilt over green boards with gilt borders. Oxford Binding. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine and edges of endpapers sunned and a few traces of foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. 1915 inscription on recto of first free endpaper. ''Play up! play up! and play the game!'' The first book of patriotic naval and military ballads by Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862-1938), poet, novelist and historian. Including the well known poems, Vitai Lampada and Drake's Drum, it became an immediate best seller after it first appeared in 1897. During the First World War, Newbolt was appointed to the War Propaganda Bureau and subsequently became Controller of Cables and Wireless at the Foreign Office. Attractive copy in an Oxford Binding. NAVAL/MILITARY POETRY POETRY NAVAL MILITARY 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY FINE BINDING NAVAL/MILITARY. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 28449

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Titel: ADMIRALS ALL AND OTHER VERSES. Thirty-Second...

Verlag: Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1913