O'hara

1917 · WRCLIT79162 — New York etc.: Chapell & Co. 1917. 8pp. Folio 356 x 258 mm. Pictorial upper wrapper. Two ink names on upper wrapper some smudging and creasing clean split at toe of spine and short closed tear at lower edge; a good copy. Sheet music likely associated with the 1918 film based on Empey's bestselling 1917 book recording his experiences as an American serving with the 1st London Regiment of the Royal Fusiliers after having enlisted at the end of 1915. He was wounded in action at the Battle of the Somme and returned home. The photograph of Empey from the books dust jacket in uniform feigning a bayonet charge is reproduced on the upper wrapper of this sheet music. After a somewhat controversial stint as a propagandist for the US's entry into the war he went on to a career in Hollywood and pulp writing playing the lead role in the film adaptation of his book. In 1935 he organized the controversial paramilitary group "The Hollywood Hussars." OCLC locates 6 copies 4 in the US. OCLC: 225312553. Chapell & Co. unknown books