51pp. Inscribe on flyleaf "To Auntie Lily from Wilfred/ Interned at Saint-Denis (France)/from 20 Dec. 1941 to 25 Aug. 1944/ with fond love/ Christmas 1944"


Potter, Alex (editor): Verses by British Internees. British Internees Camp. La Grand Caserne, Saint-Denis: [1942]. Small 8vo. 52 pp. stapled into wrappers.. A truly exceptional item. Included here are poems by 20 prisoners of the Germans at an internment camp near Paris. How the authors persuaded their captors to allow them to publish this booklet is unknown! The authors include Barnet D. Conlan and George Dunning Gribble. On the first free end-paper there is a stamp, "Geprüft"