P. P. Graves - The Pursuit - First Edition

GRAVES, Philip Perceval (1876-1953).

The Pursuit [Hauran, Autumn 1918].

London: Faber & Faber, 1930.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.32. Publisher's plain white card wraps with orange integrated dust-jacket, sewn, with printed price of 28s. net to front flap.

Lightly handled. Scarce. Near fine.

An Anglo-Irish journalist and author, P.P. Graves worked as a journalist in Constantinople prior to the outbreak of war, later as a military intelligence officer he worked with the Arab Bureau alongside T.E. Lawrence. Following the cessation of hostilities he returned to journalism and helped debunk The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Catherine W. Reilly: English Poetry of the First World War p.146.