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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.

Title
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.
Publication
[London] : Hodder and Stoughton, 1939.

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Additional Authors
  • Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002
  • Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
  • Masefield, John, 1878-1967
  • British Red Cross Society.
  • Knights of Malta.
Description
3 p. ., 5-255 p. front. (port.) plates (part. col.) facsim. (music); 26 cm.
Summary
This book was a fund raising volume for nursing charities published shortly after the outbreak of WW2, of stories and illustrations by many popular authors and artists of the day.
Subject
  • British Red Cross Society
  • British Red Cross Society
  • 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Civilian relief > Great Britain
  • World War, 1939-1945 > War work > Great Britain
  • English literature
  • Literature, Modern
  • Civilian war relief
  • English literature
  • War work
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • Fictional Work
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Dust jackets (Binding) – England – London – 1939.
  • Romans.
Note
  • Gallup, Eliot, B35.
  • Includes contributions by T. S. Eliot and John Masefield.
  • Dust jacket.
  • "First printed November 1939."
  • Prefatory letter of the Queen is facsimile reproduction.
Contents
The conjurer / A.E.W. Mason -- The church in the snow / Hugh Walpole -- Red Cross / John Masefield -- The man who had something against him / Ian Hay -- Creative imagination / Charles Morgan -- The marching song of the Pollicle Dogs ; Billy M'Caw, the remarkable parrot / T.S. Eliot -- Ports of call / H.M. Tomlinson -- The general takes off his helmet / A.A. Milne -- Down Ferry lane / Cecil Roberts -- The provincial lady in war-time / E.M. Delafield -- One man in his time plays many parts / Cedric Hardwicke -- The escort / Daphne du Maurier -- Looking back on Mayh the Sixth, 1935 / Ann Bridge -- Mrs. Miniver makes a list / Jan Struther -- The army of the shadows / Eric Ambler -- The fisherman's England / Howard Marshall -- The boatswain yawned / Humfrey Jprdan -- A child's gallop ; The stranger / Alfred Noyes -- Such an odd war / O. Douglas -- Christmas hioneymoon . Howard Spring -- No robbery / Dorothy Whipple -- Tell them, Warrior / Lord Mottistone -- A gift from Christy Keogh / L.A.G. Strong -- And so to bed ; Joy / Walter de la Mare -- It's the thought that counts / Denis Mackail -- On getting better / Gracie Fields -- Keep that garden growing / C.H. Middleton -- Pursuit / Georgette Heyer -- The patriotism of Shakespeare / Edith Evans -- The thistle down / H.C. Bailey -- Orpheus and Eurydice : translated from the fourth book of Virgil's Georgics / by C. Day Lewis -- Mrs. Memmary's visitors / Ruby Ferguson -- A love song : for bagpipes and twelve hundred and forty voices / J.B. Morton -- The crag / Frank S. Smythe -- Our knitting forces / Mary THomas -- This flag still flies over all mankind / Collie Knox.
LCCN
40005696
OCLC
  • ocm01011946
  • 1011946
  • SCSB-126014
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library