Keith Douglas, 2 titles: 'Alamein to Zem Zem', London, Editi...

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Keith Douglas, 2 titles: 'Alamein to Zem Zem', London, Editions Poetry London, 1946, 1st edition, colour frontis + 2 colour plates & black & white ills. in text as called for, original quarter cloth, dust wrapper. Scarce first edition of the British soldier-poet Keith Douglas's military memoir of the Western Desert campaign of WWII, written shortly before his death in action in Normandy in June 1944, 'Selected Poems', edited with an introduction by Ted Hughes, L, Faber, 1964, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w (2)