The Poets in Picardy and Other Poems
1919, first edition, Great War poetry
Author
Edward Adolphe Sinauer De Stein
Publisher
John Murray, London, 1919
Printing Details
First edition. Hardback, printed titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 15.5cm, 91pp.
Great War poetry by Sir Edward Adolphe Sinauer De Stein who served with the King's Royal Rifle Corps throughout the war. The poems were written in the trenches. The book is in two sections. First Poets in Picardy which imagines verse by famous poets in a war setting (eg by Private Wordsworth, a Greek tragedy written in the trenches, or "Sergeant Swinburne gets Shell Shock"), the second section of De Stein's war poetry under his own name.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition. There is some tanning to the spine but otherwise the book remains in strong readable condition with clean pages and secure binding.
Price
£12.00
