Reveille: Devoted to the Disabled Sailor & Soldier
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1918. Wraps. 3 volume set. Includes illustrations. Some illustrations in color. Name of previous owner present. Covers have some wear, soiling, edge tears and ships. Numbers 1 and 2 somewhat cocked. Spines chipped. It contains articles, poetry and prose aimed at those whose lives have been reshaped by the First World War. The advertisements to the rear of each volume are aimed specifically to the amputees, and disabled from the War. There are advertisements for hospital furniture and artificial limbs. With the first publication by C. S. Lewis, under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton, to the third volume, a poem titled 'Death in Battle'. Other contributors include Hilaire Belloc, Edith Wharton, Max Beerbohm, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad. It is thought that some content to these three issues have not appeared in any later compilations or anthologies. Edited and with several articles by the eminent novelist and playwright John Galsworthy. Reveille was the new name for its predecessor quarterly periodical entitled "Recalled to Life" which was a review of all that is being done for the disabled sailor and soldier. John Galsworthy assumed the role of Editor with the periodical name change. The initial article, "The Gist of the Matter" lays out the purpose and expectations for the revamped journal, which was now aimed at a general audience. The contributors: profit not a penny" for their contributions. "They are rewarded only by the thought of giving for those whose lives have been risked and whose future is compromised for them. " No. 1, August 1918 [iv, 174, xxxii pages]; No. 2, November 1918 [iv, 175-330, iv pages; No. 3, February 1919 [361-549 pages]. This is an extremely rare publication, edited by one of the preeminent English men of letters of the first part of the 20th century with contributions by a galaxy of other literary luminaries. It is thought that some of the content has not appeared in later compilations or anthologies of the various author's works. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: Max Beerbohm, Edith Wharton, Hilaire Belloc, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, G. K. Chesterton, Maurice Baring, Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie, Enid Bagnold, Rudyard Kipling
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