Bonfire

SUBTITLED : ` The Chestnut Gentleman ' . 150 pages about Colonel John McCrae - the man who wrote the WWI poem - `In Flanders Fields '. The narrator of the story is Bonfire - McCrae's horse. Read more about : 1at Brigade Canadian Field Artillery, Scotch Drinking Club, Pen & Pencil Club, Vallee Denacre, eulogy,McGill University, and Poperinghe Belgium. Text assisted by b/w photographs. Bonfire bookmark laid- in. Author has signed and dedicated the title page. Cond : Boards are cream coloured with pink gilt lettering at spine. White end-papers. D.J. is grey-brown with red lettering. A uniformed McCrae and Bonfire in front cover photograph. Volume is in ALL senses crispy and bright ! ! - save for two gift inscriptions on ffep. Quote (p. 45) : " ._._. and nothing at all could be done. In fact, the Major hardly got to do any artillery drills or duties at all at first, due to the sickness that the weather fostered. He spent most of his days examining soldiers one after another on sick parade. everything in ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. …