THE PALS AT SUVLA BAY, FIRST (1916) LIMITED EDITION. By Henry Hanna, Dublin 1916, 244pp, black and white photographic and coloured illustrations, with a useful illustrated roll containing brief biographical notes on the 286 officers and men of D Company, 7th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who saw service in Gallipoli. Original buff cloth cover with Regimental colours and gilt tooled Regimental badge and title to front cover and spine, a rare numbered copy from the first limited edition of 200, of which this is number 1. This volume was originally the property of the book's author, Henry Hanna, and contains an original typed letter to the author, dated 2nd June 1922, from P. Fontaine of the French Library and Museum of the Great War, thanking Hanna for forwarding a copy of his book to him, along with a 1920's newspaper cutting re. the failure of the Suvla Bay landings. Henry Hanna K.C. (1871-1946) was born in Belfast and educated at Belfast Royal Academy and Queen's University, Belfast. Called to the Irish bar, 1896, he was made K.C., Ireland, 1911, and subsequently had a distinguished career in the legal profession, being a Judge of the High Court of Ireland, 1929-43. The Pals at Suvla Bay was without doubt his most important literary work, and this lot a unique and important association copy. THE PALS AT SUVLA BAY, FIRST (1916) LIMITED EDITION. By Henry Hanna, Dublin 1916, 244pp, black and white photographic and coloured illustrations, with a useful illustrated roll containing brief biographical notes on the 286 officers and men of D Company, 7th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who saw service in Gallipoli. Original buff cloth cover with Regimental colours and gilt tooled Regimental badge and title to front cover and spine, a rare numbered copy from the first limited edition of 200, of which this is number 1. This volume was originally the property of the book's author, Henry Hanna, and contains an original typed letter to the author, dated 2nd June 1922, from P. Fontaine of the French Library and Museum of the Great War, thanking Hanna for forwarding a copy of his book to him, along with a 1920's newspaper cutting re. the failure of the Suvla Bay landings. Henry Hanna K.C. (1871-1946) was born in Belfast and educated at Belfast Royal Academy and Queen's University, Belfast. Called to the Irish bar, 1896, he was made K.C., Ireland, 1911, and subsequently had a distinguished career in the legal profession, being a Judge of the High Court of Ireland, 1929-43. The Pals at Suvla Bay was without doubt his most important literary work, and this lot a unique and important association copy.
THE PALS AT SUVLA BAY, FIRST (1916) LIMITED EDITION. By Henry Hanna, Dublin 1916, 244pp, black and white photographic and coloured illustrations, with a useful illustrated roll containing brief biographical notes on the 286 officers and men of D Company, 7th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who saw service in Gallipoli. Original buff cloth cover with Regimental colours and gilt tooled Regimental badge and title to front cover and spine, a rare numbered copy from the first limited edition of 200, of which this is number 1. This volume was originally the property of the book's author, Henry Hanna, and contains an original typed letter to the author, dated 2nd June 1922, from P. Fontaine of the French Library and Museum of the Great War, thanking Hanna for forwarding a copy of his book to him, along with a 1920's newspaper cutting re. the failure of the Suvla Bay landings. Henry Hanna K.C. (1871-1946) was born in Belfast and educated at Belfast Royal Academy and Queen's University, Belfast. Called to the Irish bar, 1896, he was made K.C., Ireland, 1911, and subsequently had a distinguished career in the legal profession, being a Judge of the High Court of Ireland, 1929-43. The Pals at Suvla Bay was without doubt his most important literary work, and this lot a unique and important association copy. THE PALS AT SUVLA BAY, FIRST (1916) LIMITED EDITION. By Henry Hanna, Dublin 1916, 244pp, black and white photographic and coloured illustrations, with a useful illustrated roll containing brief biographical notes on the 286 officers and men of D Company, 7th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who saw service in Gallipoli. Original buff cloth cover with Regimental colours and gilt tooled Regimental badge and title to front cover and spine, a rare numbered copy from the first limited edition of 200, of which this is number 1. This volume was originally the property of the book's author, Henry Hanna, and contains an original typed letter to the author, dated 2nd June 1922, from P. Fontaine of the French Library and Museum of the Great War, thanking Hanna for forwarding a copy of his book to him, along with a 1920's newspaper cutting re. the failure of the Suvla Bay landings. Henry Hanna K.C. (1871-1946) was born in Belfast and educated at Belfast Royal Academy and Queen's University, Belfast. Called to the Irish bar, 1896, he was made K.C., Ireland, 1911, and subsequently had a distinguished career in the legal profession, being a Judge of the High Court of Ireland, 1929-43. The Pals at Suvla Bay was without doubt his most important literary work, and this lot a unique and important association copy.
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