8vo. 54pp, [1]. Original publisher's red cloth with paper label to sunned spine. Internally bright and clean save a little toning to FFEP. Author's ink inscription 'Alfred Hayes, from John Drinkwater, April 1918' to verso of half title.

The first edition of a collection of predominantly war-themed verse by John Drinkwater (1882-1937). Drinkwater had published 19 of 34 poems earlier in 1917 under the same title with the Beaumont Press.

John Drinkwater (1882-1937) was an English poet, playwright, and critic. He is remembered best as a part of literary group the Dymock Poets, alongside contemporaries Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, and Rupert Brooke.