Soldier Songs. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1917. First Edition, Limited Issue. Publisher’s green buckram, margins ruled in blind, title stamped in gilt to upper cover and spine. A fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of 280 Numbered Copies, on hand-made paper, Signed by the Author.

Patrick MacGill (1889-1963) was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as The Navvy Poet because he had worked as a navvy (a labourer) in Scotland before he began writing.

During the First World War MacGill served in the London Irish Rifles and was wounded in the Battle of Loos.

One of several fine collections of verse on the “war to end all wars” it stands alongside that of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.