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Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Missing DJ if issued. Some marking to boards especially to rear, corners lightly bumped, endpapers toned with slight foxing inside. ; First edition, first printing, 1925. Red cloth boards with black lettering to front cover. ; 80 pages; A selection of poems by Bridgwater's local poet William James Sharkey. Many of Sharkey's first poems were written during the First World War and sold to provide funds for comforts for Somerset soldiers in the trenches of the Western Front or held prisoner. Fior these actions Sharkey received letters of appreciation from King George V and Lord Kitchener. After the war Sharkey continued to write poems to raise money for good causes such as local hospitals.…