QUEEN'S BOOK OF RED CROSS (Nov 1939) mother mum

Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

This is a November 1939 1st EDITION, 1st PRINTING of The Queen's Book of the Red Cross with a Message from Her Majesty The Queen and Contributions by Fifty British Authors and Artists in aid of The Lord Mayor of London's Fund for the red Cross and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Chapters:

* A. E. W. Mason tells the story of' The Conjurer'.
* Hugh Walpole relates an incident in the life of Robin Herries, and calls it ' The Church in the Snow'.
* John Masefield entitles his poem 'Red Cross'.
* Ian Hay recalls a memory of 1914 in 'The Man who had Something Against Him'.
* Charles Morgan discourses on ' Creative Imagination'.
* D. L. Murray takes us back to the Scutari Hospital and its Lady-in-Chief for his tale, 'Only a Sojer!'.
* T. S. Eliot writes two lilting poems: 'The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs,' and' Billy M'Caw: The remarkable Parrot'.
* H. M. Tomlinson writes a sea-story with the title ` Ports of Call'.
* A. A. Milne contributes a dialogue, called 'The General Takes Off His Helmet'.
* Cecil Roberts takes us 'Down Ferry Lane'.
* E. M. Delafield presents' The Provincial Lady in War-time '.
* Cedric Hardwicke speaks for the theatre in ' One Man in His Time Plays Many Parts'.
* Daphne du Maurier calls her story 'The Escort'.
* Ann Bridge recollects a jubilee in ` Looking Back on May the Sixth, 1935'.
* Jan Struther's ` Mrs. Miniver makes a List'.
* Eric Ambler tells a spy story, ` The Army of the Shadows'.
* Howard Marshall pictures 'The Fisherman's England'.
* Humfrey Jordan is back to the Merchant Navy again in his story 'The Boatswain Yawned'.
* Alfred Noyes contributes two poems, ` A Child's Gallop' and 'The Stranger'.
* O. Douglas and the people of Priorsford find it' Such an Odd War!'.
* Howard Spring tells something very like a ghost story in ` Christmas Honeymoon'.
* Dorothy Whipple subtitles her story, ` No Robbery,' a fable for the times.
* Lord Mottistone has a talk with an old friend: ` Tell Them, Warrior'.
* L. A. G. Strong tells the tale of an Irish Christmas present and calls it 'A Gift from Christy Keogh'.
* Walter de la Mare writes two little poems, 'And So To Bed' and 'Joy'.
* Denis Mackail extracts romance from wedding presents in his tale, 'It's the Thought that Counts'.
* Gracie Fields philosophises 'On Getting Better'.
* C. H. Middleton encourages you to 'Keep That Garden Going'.
* Georgette Heyer travels the open road of hard-driving days in her story 'Pursuit'.
* Edith Evans considers 'The Patriotism of Shakespeare'.
* H. C. Bailey tells a Mr. Fortune detective story with the title 'The Thistle Down'.
* C. Day Lewis makes a new translation from the Fourth Book of Virgil's Georgics.
* Ruby Ferguson relates a story of 'Mrs. Memmary's Visitors'.
* J. B. Morton composes `A Love Song' for bagpipes and twelve hundred and forty voices.
* Frank S. Smythe climbs the mountains to' The Crag'.
* Mary Thomas is practical about 'Our Knitting Forces' and adds some diagrams.
* Collie Knox writes' This Flag Still Flies Over All Mankind,' in homage to the Red Cross.

With full page plates (some in full colour) & illustrations.

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite; 4 August 1900 - 30 March 2002) was the Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1936 until his death in 1952. After her husband's death, she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Elizabeth II (see queen mother). Before her husband ascended the throne, from 1923 to 1936 she was known as the Duchess of York. She was the last Queen-consort of Ireland and Empress-consort of India.

255 pages. Hard cover with dust jacket. NOT ex-library.

Weight = 800 g