MOGG, Ronald Percy Lancelot. For This Alone & Other Poems. Germany. 1943. Printed in facsimile and published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 1944. 4to. First edition. Publisher’s purple cloth boards with colour plate to front board, in the dust jacket with the matching illustration. With two further excellent colour plates within. A smart example overall, the cloth clean, a trifle discoloured at extremities and very gently bumped to corners. Binding tight despite a few leaves pulled and nicked at gutter, all holding well. The contents with some spots to endpapers and occasionally elsewhere. The dust jacket unclipped (8s 6d net), gently rubbed at spine tips, joints, and corners, with some stains and light creasing. Still, a striking copy.
Sgt. Ronald Mogg left the newspaper world to join the RAF, and was shot down over Germany in the early part of the war and taken prisoner. In captivity, he discovered in himself a poetic gift. A manuscript was transcribed as it came from the POW camp by a fellow prisoner, Sgt. J. W. Lambert. In Edward Alderton’s introduction, he writes Mogg ‘might be accused of being morbid but the dividing line between operational flying and Death is of a very nebulous character’. A certainly morbid, certainly moving insight into the mind of an imprisoned airman.
MOGG, Ronald Percy Lancelot. For This Alone & Other Poems. Germany. 1943. Printed in facsimile and published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 1944. 4to. First edition. Publisher’s purple cloth boards with colour plate to front board, in the dust jacket with the matching illustration. With two further excellent colour plates within. A smart example overall, the cloth clean, a trifle discoloured at extremities and very gently bumped to corners. Binding tight despite a few leaves pulled and nicked at gutter, all holding well. The contents with some spots to endpapers and occasionally elsewhere. The dust jacket unclipped (8s 6d net), gently rubbed at spine tips, joints, and corners, with some stains and light creasing. Still, a striking copy.
Sgt. Ronald Mogg left the newspaper world to join the RAF, and was shot down over Germany in the early part of the war and taken prisoner. In captivity, he discovered in himself a poetic gift. A manuscript was transcribed as it came from the POW camp by a fellow prisoner, Sgt. J. W. Lambert. In Edward Alderton’s introduction, he writes Mogg ‘might be accused of being morbid but the dividing line between operational flying and Death is of a very nebulous character’. A certainly morbid, certainly moving insight into the mind of an imprisoned airman.
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