Second World War poetry.- Douglas (Norman) Alamein to Zem Zem, plates, light toning to text margins, original cloth-backed boards, sunning to tips of spine, jacket a little browned, spine ends and corners chipped, light wear to head, light surface soiling, 1946 § Lewis (Alun) Raiders' Dawn, frontispiece, original stiff pictorial wrappers, spine slightly browned, 1942 § Fuller (Roy) The Middle of a War, ink ownership inscription, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jackets, spine slightly faded, Hogarth Press, 1942 § Oasis, the Middle East Anthology of Poetry from the Forces, original pictorial wrappers, original printed wraparound band, Cairo, [1943] § Poems From Italy, signed inscription by John Gawsworth relating to Siegfried Sassoon's favourable review of his poetry to pastedown and autograph poem 'The English: July 1940' signed to front free endpaper, original cloth, light rubbing and fading, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, chipped and frayed at head, 1945 § Keyes (Sidney) The Collected Poems, portrait frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1945, first editions; and 5 others, Second World War poetry (11)

⁂ A lovely collection representing the most significant poets who saw active service in the Second World War.