WRIT IN BARRACKS.
by WALLACE, Edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Methuen, London. 1900. 1st edn. Hardback without dustwrapper. Sml 8vo x, pp121 + 48 advtg. (dated Oct 1901 in advtg- so probably later issue of the orig. sheets as the title page has 1900.) Orig red buckram, gilt to front board & spine. VG, spine slightly faded, slightly bumped with wear head & tail of spine and corners, eps tanned, some foxing to prelims & page edges. Dedicated to ".the rank & file of the Royal Army Medical Corps amongst whom I spent six happy years." A very scarce Wallace collection of poetry.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Russell Needham Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 828
- Title
- WRIT IN BARRACKS.
- Author
- WALLACE, Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen, London. 1900.
- Keywords
- POETRY MEDICAL CORPS
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Russell Needham Books
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Taunton, Somerset
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