First edition, first impression, in the very scarce dust jacket designed by Claude Lovat Fraser. This copy has laid in a note inscribed by Wilson's bereaved parents in pencil, "Rev: J. F. A. Wicksteed with all good wishes from A. F. & T. Cameron Wilson, Paignton". The recipient was the Vicar of Tunbridge Wells. Captain Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson (1889-1918), 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, was the son of a clergyman who became a schoolmaster and by the outbreak of the First World War had written two novels (the first, The Friendly Enemy, published in 1913, the second, Bolts From the Blue, posthumously in 1929) and had various poems and articles published in periodicals. He was a close friend of Harold Monro of the Poetry Bookshop, which published this, his collection of war poetry. Wilson was killed during the German's Spring Offensive 23 March 1918. Oddly the paper on which the parents' inscription appears bears the shadowed title of Wilson's latterly published novel Bolts From the Blue on it - most likely the inscription was made out in a copy of Bolts from the Blue and then clipped by Wicksteed and laid into his copy of this more significant collection of war poems.
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