Search Results: invocation war poems others by nichols robert

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Elkin Mathews, 1915. Printer Wrapper. Very Good. ICHOLS, Robert. Invocation: War Poems & Others. First edition. 41, [3]pp., half-title. A very good copy in original wrappers,. 8vo. Elkin Mathews. 1915. Robert Nichols was born into a prestigious upper-class family from Essex. He studied at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford. He left Oxford at the outbreak of World War I and served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field artillery, though he only served in France during the summer of 1916 due to ill health. While his health prevented him from seeing much active duty, Nichols was one of the earliest recognized "soldier-poets" of World War I. His first books were widely known: Invocation (1915) and Ardours and Endurances (1917). They were more idealistic and patriotic than the work of Siegfried Sassoon or Robert Graves (both of whom were friends).

Elkin Mathews, London, 1915. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition (first printing) of the author's first book, published whilst he was serving on the Western Front and preceded only by his appearance in the 1915 Oxford poetry anthology. Small 8vo. 41pp. Lettered card wrappers with French flaps (issued simultaneously both hardcover and paperback formats). A touch of light toning and wear to the wrappers. A very good copy. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to a blank preliminary. Seventeen poems. See Reilly p.236. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..