World War I writers Collection of works by Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and others comprising: Thomas, Edward. Rose Acre Papers. London: Lanthorn Press, 1904. First edition, small 8vo, original blue quarter cloth: Idem. The Woodland Life. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1897. 4to, original cloth (second state of binding, slightly marked); Idem. These Things the Poets Said. Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1935. First edition, one of 150 copies, 8vo, original quarter cloth, glassine dust jacket, woodcut title-page, initials and head- and tailpieces in colours, unopened, dust jacket chipped at head of spine, endpapers browned; Idem. Poems. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1917. First edition, 8vo, original boards, photogravure portrait frontispiece; Idem. A Literary Pilgrim in England. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1917. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, with the rare dust jacket (the statement 'second edition' on front flap apparently referring to Thomas's work Maurice Maeterlinck, advertised below), all plates as called for; Brooke, Rupert. 1914 and other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1915. First edition, third impression, 8vo, original cloth, bookplate of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), B. H. Blackwell compliments slip inscribed 'sent by instruction of Mr G. R. Mitchison' mounted to front free endpaper; and 17 others, all in original cloth or boards unless stated, including: 5 by Edward Thomas (e.g. The Life of the Duke of Marlborough, 1915, first edition, with the rare dust jacket, chipped); Rupert Brooke, 1914 and other Poems, 1915 (first edition, first impression, front free endpaper excised); Wilfred Owen, Poems, 1921 (first edition, second impression); Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack, 1918 (first edition, contemporary cloth); 'Restalrig', War Blasts and Other Poems, Edinburgh: Leith Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 1915 (2 copies, both inscribed by the author); Vignettes of War from the Notebook of a Journalist in Arms, by the Late Lieutenant Hugh G. Garland, Adelaide: W. K. Thomas & Co., c.1920; If I Goes West! By a Tommy, 1918 (review copy blind stamp); Ballads of Battle, by Lance-Corporal Joseph Lee 1st/4th Battalion Black Watch, 1916 (dust jacket); and similar (23)