NEVINSON, C. R. W. (1889-1946, artist) - Modern War, London, 1917, 4to, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY NEVINSON in pencil, plates, boards. FIRST EDITION. With the same artist's The Great War (London, 1918, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY NEVINSON). (2)

NEVINSON, Christopher Richard Wynne (1889-1946, artist) - Modern War. Paintings by C. R. W. Nevinson. With an Essay by P. G. Konody. London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917. 4to (288 x 225mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY C. R. W. NEVINSON in pencil, 24 monochrome plates by Nevinson. Original green buckram-backed paper boards with printed label mounted on the upper cover (some white scratch marks to the lower edges of the covers, some fading at the edges, without the very scarce dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. With the same artist's The Great War. Fourth Year by C. R. W. Nevinson. With an Essay by J. E. Crawford Flitch, R.F.A. (London, 1918, 4to, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY C. R. W. NEVINSON in pencil, monochrome plates, original buckram-backed paper boards, spine label chipped, without the very scarce dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. Nevinson was appointed an official war artist by the then "Department of Information" in 1917, along with Eric Kennington, Paul Nash, William Orpen and Stanley Spencer, among others. Provenance: From the Collection of Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896-1977). (2)