GONE TO THE WAR AND OTHER POEMS IN THE LINCOLNSHIRE DIALECT

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light brown card covers with an illustration and titles in brown to the upper cover, titles in brown to the spine. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing and creasing to the extremities. The contents, with a previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper and a little spotting to the prelims and margins, are otherwise clean throughout. Scarce.

Bernard Samuel Gilbert (1882- 1927) wrote prolifically from around the age of thirty up until his death in 1945. His literature spans poetry, novels, plays, agriculture, political pamphlets and newspaper columns. He wrote of contemporary Lincolnshire and rural England, life and work on the land and country customs and beliefs.