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BROOKE, RUPERT: : Selected Poems. [Dorothy G. Brooke SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.SIDGWICK & JACKSON,LTD.,1919.

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UK,slim 16mo,HB skived leather,SIGNED,1st edn,4th imp.[Originally and first published March 1917,a 2nd impressionApril,1017,a 3rd imp. May,1918 and a 4th impression February,1919 - this edn.] VG-.No owner name per se,but a neat,handwritten ink dedication inscrptn,signature and date thus: 'Margaret Ross Peddie From Dorothy G. Brooke (underscore) 2nd. July 1920.' to front free endpaper.[Dorothy. G. Brooke founder of The Old War Horse Memorial Hospital in 1934 in Cairo. See below.] Dark reddish-brown skiver leather-clad card covers [Skiver leather,a thin sheepskin with a colour finish,used in bookbinding.A term commonly used to describe a dressed goat or sheep skin with a patterned embossing.] with rubbing and miniscule loss to edges and corner tips,the complete spine /backstrip absent and missing,both sets of white endpapers with off-set toning but no foxing/spotting.To lower edge front free endpaper a small,narrow longitudinal fluid stain towards front hinge - top 1/3rd of which is cracked,a simlar but slightly larger and longer fluid stain along with residual shadow of bookseller's narrow strip label within said stain to rear,lower edge and similar location as front stain - hing intact and without cracking.This stain has bled through in decreasing degree, from endpapers through 4pp adverts anf from pp75 back to pp67,another water-stain noted at foot of pp66 back to pp50 - again in lessening degrees,and a further fluid stain minimally clipping the respective verso+ recto lower corners of the frntis portait. Top+fore-edges aged/toned - as usual/ normal; contents bright,generally clean and solid - no foxing,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,possibly unread,other than my own collation.UK,slim 16mo,HB skived leather,SIGNED,1st edn,4th imp,5-75pp [paginated] includes 32 poems and the 1914 I-V sonnets including V - 'The Soldier.'Plus [unpaginated] half-title page with other works listed to its verso, author's tissue guarded contemporary sepia portrait photograph,title page,contents list/table,verso of last paginated page with PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS WEST NORWOOD,and to the rear,4pp publisher's adverts for Brooke's other publications. Although a commonplace title,this particular item despite its fairly and honestly described faults,is all the more intriguing and interesting because of the contempraneous association of the post war-related activity of the signee and therefore probably quite scarce. Brooke's sonnet "The Soldier" is a poem that was the fifth poem in a series of poems entitled '1914 and Other Poems.' published in 1915. This collection of poetry outsold most others of the time, reaching an incredible 24th reprint by 1918.The poem is regarded as one of the most famous war poems ever written, reflecting British sorrow over and pride in the young men who died in World War I.A deeply patriotic and idealistic poem expressing a soldier's love for his homeland - in this case England,which is portrayed as a kind of nurturing paradise. Dorothy Brooke (b. 1st June,1883 – d. 10th June 1955) was the founder of The Old War Horse Memorial Hospital in 1934 in Cairo - renamed The Brooke Hospital for Animals in 1961.Developing from a single operation in Cairo into one of the world’s largest equine's welfare organisations,at work in many countries,with headquarters in London, it is known today as Brooke.She was first married in 1905 to Lt.-Col. James Gerald Lamb Searight,The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).They divorced in 1926.Brooke married again in 1926,to Major-General Geoffrey Francis Heremon Brooke,C.B., D.S.O., M.C. (1884–1966),16th/5th Lancers. Geoffrey Brooke was a recognised horse expert and author.He trained and rode his own steeplechasers,he was a polo-player and show-jumper and competed as a member of the British equestrian team in the Paris,1924 Summer Olympics. During World War I,horses cast from the veterinary hospitals had initially been sold to Egyptian dealers.British residents in Cairo had protested so forcefully that this practice was halted.In 1919,the cavalry,artillery and draught horses that had served in the British Army in the Egypt and Palestine campaigns of WW1 were sold in their many thousands to a life of continuous hard labour and a painful old age.Many had been requisitioned in England and had served in the British Yeomanry.Some had seen active service on the Western Front before being drafted as remounts to the Near East.After the Armistice,with 22,000 horses,mostly in Palestine and Sinai,requiring transport or disposal,the Remounts Directorate of the War Office ordered the local sale of all animals of 12 years and under that were deemed up to some work - those over 12 and the unsound,were destroyed. Animal welfare charity founder Dorothy Brooke was honoured with a blue plaque in Salisbury,where she lived with her husband from 1939-55. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,slim 16mo,HB skiver leather,SIGNED,1st edn,4th imp.
SIGNED+dedicated.Margaret Ross Peddie From Dorothy G. Brooke (underscore) 2nd. July 1920.

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