
1st Edition 1924. Uncommon with its wrapper. A collection of 55 poems with 8 illustrations by Leo Bates. Includes the famous poem If. From the library of Lt Col Alfred Garnet Cuthbert Keeson OBE MC served in the 9th London Regiment during the Great War winning an MC in September 1918. He became Commanding Officer of the Queen Victoria Rifles from 1934 to 1938. The Second World War saw him serving on the Staff as a Brigade Major for 71st Infantry and being made an OBE. He died in 1968. Book is very good+ and bright. Spine a little lightened. Contents good. Pages foxed in places. The wrapper is very good with edges rubbed and nicked. Loss to spine tips. Spine lightened.