Songs from the Trenches: the Soul of the A.E.F. A Collection of Verses by American Soldiers in France...from Poems Submitted in the Prize Competition of the New York Herald

  • New York: Harper and Brothers, (1918)
By [WW1] GIBBONS, Herbert Adams
New York: Harper and Brothers, (1918). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; xvi,207pp. Two ownership signatures to front endpaper, else tight, straight and unmarked; Very Good or better. In the scarce printed dustwrapper, slightly chipped at extremities with a few brief, closed tears; Very Good.

Among the hundred or so contributions are two early works, "Chant of the Army Cooks" and "Apres La Guerre," by the noted American writer, editor and bibliophile John T. Winterich, at this time a Private assigned to the staff of the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. Scarce in jacket.

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Songs from the Trenches: the Soul of the A.E.F. A Collection of Verses by American Soldiers in France...from Poems Submitted in the Prize Competition of the New York Herald

Author

[WW1] GIBBONS, Herbert Adams

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Publisher

Harper and Brothers: New York

Date

(1918)

Edition

First Edition


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