Buy this book on-line Masefield, John : GallipoliS.B.Gundy, Toronto, 1916
An account oi the causes, circumstances strategeis and failures that resulted in the ultimate disaster of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and maps ( one fold-out) Nice clean copy in red cloth, name of previous owner in title page, Spine slightly crumpled.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Masefield, John : Gallipoli. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. MASEFIELD**, JOHN: : GALLIPOLILONDON.HEINEMANN,1916. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp. [True 1st edn was published Sept,1916,a new impression followed in Oct,1916 and then another printing,November,1916,plus subsequent later edns.] VG.No owner inscrptn,but their attractive,b/w illustrated named bookplate (F.M.HARRIS) pasted to front pastedown,no dw/dj.
Publisher's original,brick red cloth boards with stamped black ink lettering to upper board+spine/backstrip,publisher colophon to rear board; with negligible shelf-wear to edges but some light bumping with indentations to board's front+rear, top+bottom edges.Board's extremities/edges lightly sunned/faded,spine/backstrip dulled.Top edge dust-soiled and slightly darkened - as usual/normal - fore-edge brighter and cleaner,also aged,but to a lesser degree; contents bright,tight and clean apart from page edge toning.UK, 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,vii-viiipp+ 3-183pp [paginated] includes list/table of illustrations+maps: 18 contemporary b/w photographs of which 6 are double-page,
and 3 b/w maps one of which is a fold- out
and another the frntis (Gallipoli Peninsula) throughout the text and the book,6 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and dedication.
Masefield's near contemporary account of Sir Ian Hamilton's disastrous,
unsuccessful expedition against Turkey,in the Dardanelles Campaign of World War I.
Masefield would later on,replace Robert Bridges as the Poet Laureate in 1930, having been chosen in preference to Rudyard Kipling,A.E Housman,Yeats,John Drinkwater,Walter de la Mare,and Henry Newbolt,six of his eminent contemporaries. John Masefield served as Britain's Poet Laureate from 1930-1967.
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