The Bookman, Christmas Number 1917

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good; Covers scuffed and soiled, some light penciled marginalia . throughout. Lacks insert portfolio of plates by Eleanor F. Birkdale.. 1917. Softcover. Color printed tan card covers with photo reproduction of Rupert Brooke portrait affixed to front cover. Volume LIII, No. 315, December 1917. Monthly publication showcasing the publisher’s books and including many sample tipped-in illustrations. This issue features many photograph portrait reproductions of World War I soldiers, including another copy of the Rupert Brooke portrait and one of Dixon Scott by Alvin Langdon Coburn, of Edward Thomas by E. O. Hoppe, as well as other illustrations by Arthur Rackham, H. M. Brock, Muirhead Bone, John S. Sargent, and others. Articles about Palestine, Russia, motoring, soldier-poets who died in the Great War, the French novel, and Mexico. Many literary advertisements. Illustrated supplemental sections on Art, Poetry, and Belles Lettres; Children’s Books; History, Biography, and Travel; and Fiction and General Literature. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .