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(CANADIAN WW1). McCRAE, John. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems by... With an Essay in Character by Sir Andrew MacPhail.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/ Toronto: Briggs, 1919. First U.S. edition. 8vo., original blue cloth. Illustrated. Name o/w about fine in d/w with chips to the spine ends, upper edge, and chipping and creasing to the upper edge of the rear panel but still a very good d/w. Watters p.121.
"In Flanders Fields", written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, has become the most quoted war poem and is almost always featured in any Remembrance Day Service. McCrae drew inspiration for the poem after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915. ‘According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it.' The poem first appeared in Punch Magazine in December, 1915. This 1919 volume of McCrae's poems includes two versions of ‘In Flanders Fields' a printed facsimile of McCrae's manuscript with the first line ending in ‘grow' and a printed version with the last line ending ‘blow'--matching the version printed in Punch Magazine.
$400
(CANADIAN WW1). McCRAE, John. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems by... With an Essay in Character by Sir Andrew MacPhail. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/ Toronto: Briggs, 1919. First U.S. edition. 8vo., original blue cloth. Illustrated. Name o/w about fine in d/w with chips to the spine ends, upper edge, and chipping and creasing to the upper edge of the rear panel but still a very good d/w. Watters p.121.
"In Flanders Fields", written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, has become the most quoted war poem and is almost always featured in any Remembrance Day Service. McCrae drew inspiration for the poem after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915. ‘According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it.' The poem first appeared in Punch Magazine in December, 1915. This 1919 volume of McCrae's poems includes two versions of ‘In Flanders Fields' a printed facsimile of McCrae's manuscript with the first line ending in ‘grow' and a printed version with the last line ending ‘blow'--matching the version printed in Punch Magazine.
$400
