Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London by A St. John Adcock - 1929

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1929. Early printing. Small 8vo, purple cloth, 287, [3] pp, yellow printed dust jacket. This copy belonged to longtime journalist and associated press correspondent John Koenig Jr, while he was serving in the Air Force in England during WWII (inscribed by him in 1943). Together with related ephemera laid in by Koenig--photocopied articles, a 1940s transcript of an article on London shrines, a 1924 promotional card for Ye Olde Tiget Tavern, and most interestingly, a mimeographed poem by Margaret Marshall, Sergeant in the Auxiliary Territorial Services, the women's branch of the British military during WWII. The poem discusses her internal pain and anxiety and is accompanied by a note--"Margaret is one of Suzannes friends, a lovely girl, she has found the Army life hard and difficult, she wrote this poem when she was very ill." A near fine copy with Koenig's bookplate to front pastedown, light page toning, in a very good jacket, with dust jacket spine toned, chipped at spine ends, small damp stain to cetner of jacket spine.Fire