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The signed first edition of a scarce yet fascinating ballad of a British soldier by Francis Bacon biographer Alfred Dodd.
The signed first edition of the scarce The Ballad of the Iron Cross, a narrative ballad along with other fascinating poems by British writer Alfred Dodd.
Published by Erskine MacDonald in 1918, the final year of the First World War.
In the publisher's original paper boards, with the poet's signature to the half-title.
Perhaps one of the most fascinating poems of the First World War, The Ballad of the Iron Cross is a thought-provoking narrative poem that follows a British soldier who won the Victoria Cross, including his killing of a Iron Cross awardee, and his trauma.
Following from the ballad are six other intriguing poems, including a pastiche of Rupert Brooke's The Soldier.
Dodd previously wrote the appraised biography Francis Bacon's Personal Life Story in 1910, which controversially claimed that Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's works.
In the publisher's original paper boards.
Externally, mostly smart, with small signs of shelf wear and very slight bumping to the extremities.
Fading to the spine, top edge of front board, and to the joints.
The odd small mark to boards.
The odd spot to end papers.
Publisher's advertisement to rear paste down and the author's signed inscription to half-title on front free end paper.
Internally, firmly bound, with very slight wear between leaves pp.
16-17.
Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot, heavier to first leaves, p.
3, and final leaf.
Good
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