Alamein to Zem Zem.

Douglas (Keith)

Alamein to Zem Zem.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 2 further colour-printed plates by the author along with several text illustrations by the same, paper browned throughout, pp. 141, xvi, 8vo, original quarter red cloth with grey boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, small patches of discolouration to both cloth and boards, bottom corners knocked, address noted in pencil to rear free endpaper, good

Publication Details: PL Editions Poetry, 1946

Notes: Inscribed on the flyleaf by the publisher: 'For Laurence, from Tambi 20 iii 47 x' - the recipient was perhaps Laurence Whistler, who was among the poets published in Tambimuttu's Poetry London magazine.A scarce book, published posthumously. The author had attended Merton College, Oxford, where Edmund Blunden was among his tutors, at the end of the previous decade - in the ODNB, Jon Stallworthy remarks that this book 'rendered the war in the western desert as graphically as Blunden's Undertones of War (1928) had depicted life and death on the western front'.With a sixteen page appendix of po...moreInscribed on the flyleaf by the publisher: 'For Laurence, from Tambi 20 iii 47 x' - the recipient was perhaps Laurence Whistler, who was among the poets published in Tambimuttu's Poetry London magazine.A scarce book, published posthumously. The author had attended Merton College, Oxford, where Edmund Blunden was among his tutors, at the end of the previous decade - in the ODNB, Jon Stallworthy remarks that this book 'rendered the war in the western desert as graphically as Blunden's Undertones of War (1928) had depicted life and death on the western front'.With a sixteen page appendix of poems by the author. HIDE