Memorials of the Military Life

Metcalfe, Thomas Washington

Verlag: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London, 1936

Beschreibung

Dampstain to margin of rear endpaper and top page edges. Previous owner's blind-stamp on title page. Bookseller's label on front endpaper, Newbold's Bookshop, Dunedin. Short tears and small chips to margins of dust-jacket. Some paper reinforcement to head of dust-jacket spine on reverse side. Some staining to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Uncommon in dust-jacket. 295, [1 (blank)] pages + colour cartoon frontispiece. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 133mm. Autobiography. "We had been allowed to carry out the day's tactical exercise in shirt-sleeves, so that a distant observer might have liked the battalion on its march across the heath to a grey-bodied, yellow-legged millipede crawling through a pool of spilled wine; for the heather was out, bounding the road on either hand with a purple expanse of glossy richness." - the opening sentence, page 11. By the author of "A Sea-Lover's Memories" and "Port of Heaven". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24631

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Memorials of the Military Life

Verlag: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1936

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good-

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+

Auflage: First Edition.