Writ in Barracks

by Edgar Wallace, Richard Horatio

$65 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Methuen, 1900. Poetry . FIRST EDITION. Octavo 20 x 14 cm , pp.121; 3 , blank; 48, catalogue dated October 1900 second issue . Publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, rough-cut top edge, other edges trimmed. Some acceptable wear and marking, occasional foxing; very good. The author's second book, being a collection of verse from the Boer War, in which Wallace served as an Army Medic. Includes the poem 'Tommy to his Laureate'

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