S. de V. Julius — Poems

London, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. 1928 . First edition. Cloth. Scarce signed first-edition poetry collection, written by S. de V. Julius whilst a prisoner of war. Scarce first edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.Presentation copy. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper, dated July 1928.Insightful collection of First World War poetry from Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius. Julius joined The Royal Sussex Regiment in 1896 and served throughout the Tirah campaign. His pamphlet "Notes on Striking Natives" was highly regarded by the likes of Lord Kitchener. During the First World War, he became a prisoner of war, which was when he began writing poetry. In the opening lines of this collection, "The Poem of a Prisoner of War 1917", Julius writes "when Beauty and Truth were withdrawn from me [..] I therefore wrote of them". The poems survived due to his ingenious secreting of them on minute pieces of paper in the buttons of his uniform. In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper. Presentation copy. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper, dated July 1928. Externally, generally smart with slight bumping and rubbing and more visible marking. Dust wrapper significantly torn, in two parts, reinforced with archival binding. Furnished with moderate marking and a small tide mark to the front of wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Slight spotting only to first and last few pages, otherwise very bright and clean throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Fair.