Leslie Phillips Jones — Youth: A Song

Nottingham, J & J Vice Ltd. [1915]. First edition. Cloth. Very scarce first edition of Leslie Philips Jones' posthumous poetry collection. Author's relative's copy with signature, letter and author's bookplate. Very scarce first edition.In publisher's original cloth binding.Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library.Author's relative's copy. Signed by the owner. With the author's bookplate tipped in and a letter detailing the owner's relationship to the author.Featuring a frontispiece portrait of the author.Published posthumously, this poetry collection from Leslie Philips Jones features verses written before and during the First World War, up until his death from battle wounds in June 1915. Including the timely 1914 essay "The Garden of England" in which Jones compares England to a "cultured garden" and warns that the danger of patriotism is that it "masks the grim, hidden, ever-rising realities", especially coming from abroad. In publisher's original cloth binding. Signed by the owner to the front free endpaper. Letter and author's bookplate tipped in. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing, the odd mark, including one more moderate red mark to the front board, and minor spotting to title piece. Internally, generally firmly bound with binding more delicate towards the centre of the text block. First and last few pages feature slight spotting, otherwise bright and clean copy. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .