Actor, Soldier, Poet

1939, first edition of the memoirs of Robert Henderson-Bland

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First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 327pp.

The memoirs of Robert Henderson Bland, an actor of both stage and screen and poet. He served as Captain in the Gloucesters at Somme and Ypres in the Great War, until being wounded in 1918, and then had a third career as a poet of some note. He was killed during an air raid in the Blitz in London in August 1941. This book is illustrated with tissue guarded photographs.

Condition

The book is in good solid condition, with some tanning to the untrimmed edges but otherwise in strong readable condition. The dustwrapper has been price-clipped to the spine (where the price had been printed) and this has lead to some sun-fading to the green cloth of the book's spine. The wrapper is edgeworn but now within a protective sleeve.