The blinded soldiers and sailors gift book

London, Jarrold & Sons, 1915. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original decorated, fine-ribbed, now glassine protected. Minor, generalised dust-dulling, scattered marginal foxing. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, clean and strong. Notes: Suggested date from date on frontispiece by Hugh Thomson. Published for the benefit of The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors' Hostel, St. Dunstan's, Regent Park - c.f. Foreword. Physical description: 231 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), port. ; 25 cm. Contents: In the dark / Robert Hichens -- The black cap / Walter Emanuel -- The recruit / John Galsworthy -- The inward radiance / Edmund Gosse -- Miss Bittern's coronation / Ellen Thornycroft Fowler -- The copper mystery / Eden Phillpotts -- Abs and his wife / J.E. Patterson -- The land ironclads / H.G. Wells -- We that look on / Austin Dobson -- Shakespeare and the Germans / G.K. Chesterton -- Smoke rings / Anthony Hope -- I heard the desert calling / Gilbert Parker -- Thoughts in a garden / Arnold White -- Prayer in time of war / Mrs. E. Nesbit -- The search / Beatrice Harraden -- Like souls immortal / W.L. Courtney -- Two little fables / Barry Pain -- Joan attends a first-night performance / Keble Howard -- The dreaming knight / A.C. Benson -- A Belgian lady, seen in the Strand / Guy Thorne -- Prayer / Evelyn Underhill -- The blind / T.P. O'Connor -- At the crisis of life / Sir Laurence Gomme -- Because they seeing, see not / A. Burfield -- Travelers / A. St. John Adcock -- The kingdom of the blind / Charles Marriott -- Two sonnets / John Milton. Subjects: St. Dunstan's for Men and Women Blinded on War Service.British Army; 1914-1918; Blind; Gift books; World War, 1914-1918 ; Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 ; Gift books; World War, 1914-1918 Veterans; Personnes aveugles; Livres-albums; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 ; Romans, nouvelles, etc.; Veterans; World War, 1914-1918 ; Fiction; Gift books; WW1, WWI, First World War, Great War; wounded in action, casualty, soldier, sailor, naval, convalescence, fiction, writing, literature, poetry, art; Great Britain; Europe; United Kingdom Europe; Blindness; World War (1914-1918) Literary depictions.Subjects: St. Dunstan's for Men and Women Blinded on War Service. British Army; 1914-1918; Blind; Gift books; World War, 1914-1918 ; Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 ; Gift books; World War, 1914-1918 Veterans; Personnes aveugles; Livres-albums; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 ; Romans, nouvelles, etc.; Veterans; World War, 1914-1918 ; Fiction; Gift books; WW1, WWI, First World War, Great War; wounded in action, casualty, soldier, sailor, naval, convalescence, fiction, writing, literature, poetry, art; Great Britain; Europe; United Kingdom Europe; Blindness; World War (1914-1918) Literary depictions.