8vo. 106pp. Original publisher's gilt-tooled dark purple cloth boards, fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Boards rubbed and marked, corners bumped, spine sunned. Contemporary penciled gift inscription to FFEP, and under an inked ownership signature. Internally bright and clean throughout.

The first edition of a collection of poetry by Buchan, dedicated to his brother Alistair, who fell on Easter Monday 1917 at Arras.

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish poet, novelist, historian, and Unionist politician, best remembered for his subterfuge thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), and serving as Governor General of Canada from 1935 to his death, after a fall in 1940.