The Golden Horseshoe (1919, first edition)
The Great War journal of the 37th Division, with colour plates and trench humour
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Printing Details
First edition. Card covers. 28.5 × 22cm, 112pp.
The regimental journal of the 37th Division for the Great War, named after the regimental division symbol—a horseshoe which originally pointed downwards but was inverted to point upwards after the division were considered lucky during difficult campaigns! Like most soldier's journals, there is blend of trench humour, stories and poems, and with ten coloured plates, included an impressively modern one titled "Zero, April 9, 1917" by Major C J B Way (RAMC). There are smaller black and white illustrations throughout.
Condition
The covers are in poor condition with heavy chipping to the edges and they have become detached from the textblock which is stapled. The text block is tanned and foxed throughout and the paper a little brittle but the whole remains a rare collectible piece of Great War trench journalism, and the cover in itself is rather striking with a Tommy looking up from a pockmarked landscape to the horseshoe as the moon.
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£40.00
