J. H. F. McEwen — Poems

London, Elkin Mathews, 1920. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce post-WWI collection of verse, a presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author, Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen. In the publisher's original paper covered boards.First edition.A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper: "To Father Macdonald, from J. H. F. McEwen."A scarce post-WWI collection of verse, with poems including: "Peace: 1919," "Jeanne D'Arc," "Easter," "In Memoriam," "Song of Ukraine," "Scottish Jacobite Toast" "Dea Certe," "A North Sea Passage," "Craigniel Castle," "Love Lost," "The Auld Wife and the Wind," among many others.J. H. F. McEwen, Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen (1894-1962), a Scottish soldier, diplomat, and later Conservative MP for Berwick. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, he served in WWI with the Queen"s Own Cameron Highlanders and the Royal Flying Corps before embarking on a distinguished political and public career. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Externally, smart. Slight discolouration to extremities. One or two marks to rear board. Author's inscription to front free endpaper. Front hinge very slightly strained, but firm. The odd light spot to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to fore edge and first and last few leaves. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .