MANUSCRIPT. – FIRST WORLD WAR. [A hand-written book of poetry made and presented as a personal gift from ‘G.D.S’ to his friend ‘D.H’. N.p.:] Christmas Day, 1914. 32pp., manuscript, 4to (258 x 147mm.) 16 leaves in a single legible near-calligraphic hand, brown ink, dedication leaf, introduction, and mostly 19th century poems transcribed recto with titles on the preceding leaf, including poems by P.B. Shelley, Robert Browning, Christina Rosetti and Mary Coleridge. (Mild toning.) Original calf-backed brown cloth (spine worn). Note: the introduction reads: ‘Dear Friend, this is Christmas Day. But there is little joy in the land: there is mourning and great heaving of heart; and yet out of the sadness of it all there will arise a new joy which shall be the spirit of LOVE’. Provenance: ‘D.H.’ (gift inscribed on the dedication leaf from ‘G.D.S. In Memory of Many a Happy Day’).