Lance-Corporal Joseph Lee — Ballads of Battle

London, John Murray, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition presentation copy of this book of wartime poetry, illustrated from the battlefield by the author. A very scarce signed first edition copy of this volume.Bound in original half red cloth and grey pictorial boards.Ink inscription and signature to front free endpaper read: 'Corporal Joseph Lee 1/4 Black Watch. When we shake hands it is with all the fingers! [Check] page 64.'Features a monochrome frontispiece, and 16 further vignette illustrations, artfully rendered by the author himself.Collated, complete. Bound in original half red cloth and grey pictorial boards. Externally, smart. Slight bumping to extremities. Rubbing to head, tail and spine. Fading to lower end of spine. The odd mark to boards. Age toning to endpapers. Author's ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Lance-Corporal Joseph Lee. Very Good .