8vo. 97pp, [1]. Original publisher's blind-stamped green paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces, in original printed paper dust-wrapper. Dust-wrapper browned and spotted, with small losses to edges and corners. A presentation copy, with the author's inscription to FFEP: 'For Thomas A. ?, from his friend, Charles Hanson Towne. New York: July 9: 1936'. Text-block split? Scuffing and browning to endpapers.

A presentation copy of a collection of wartime poetry, both patriotic and pacifist, by New York poet Charles Hanson Towne (1877-1949), featuring verses on the plight of Europe, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the American war effort. Despite his sympathy for the conflict's innumerable casualties, the author emphasises the necessity of American military intervention, describing the Central Powers as a 'mad hound': 'O thou my country, be not slow to smite/This red abomination of the world.' Hanson Towne later published Shaking Hands with England, a collection of verse inspired by a 1918 visit to England, Scotland, and France and written largely in tribute to the wartime efforts of Great Britain: '[England] will not speak her own praises; therefore we on the other side of the world must tell of her wonder in the days when sorrow stood at her door'.