WE THAT WERE YOUNG.

First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp ix, 466.2. Original publisher's brown cloth lettered gilt at the spine. Ownership signature of Emilie Estelle Rosemary Pakenham (1907-1932) sister of the fantasy writer Ivo Pakenham. . Cean about VG condition with slight evidence of discreet rebacking. The book was re-issued in the 1980's by the Feminist Press in the USA and by Virago in the UK, the true first edition is rare. Irene Rathbone (1892-1980) an early suffragist, worked at YMCA camps in France during the Great War and as a V. A. D. in London. A lament for the death of an idealistic generation, the book is sometimes compared with Richard Aldington's 'Death of a Hero.' Irene Rathbone writes - "We were the youth of the world, we were on the crest of life, and we were the war.".