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"OVER THE TOP": By An American Soldier Who Went. Together With Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Putnam, 1917. Hardcover - An American's account of serving in the British Army in World War I before the United States got involved, of fighting in the trenches, light-hearted hi-jinks and of being seriously wounded. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 13 inserted plates of photographs and graphs (some doublepage). x, 315 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's advertisements.
Condition: Good overall in red cloth - front hinge cracking, rubbing to the spine and soiling to covers, spine slant..
Book ID: 76195More details Price: $16.00 -
BIRDSONG.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, (1996.). First edition - Rather uncommon advance issue for the first US appearance of his second novel, and perhaps his best - a story of obsessive love, but more importantly, a harrowing account of the horrors of trench warfare during the first World War. 413 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 42289More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GIRL AT THE LION D'OR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Vintage Books, (1996.). First edition - Novel set at a rundown hotel in a small French village in the years between the wars, issued as a trade paperback original in the US. 246 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64076More details Price: $17.50 -
BIRDSONG.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1997.). First edition - His second novel, and perhaps his best - a story of obsessive love, but more importantly, a harrowing account of the horrors of trench warfare during the first World War. 413 pp. ISBN: 0-679-776818.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 68656More details Price: $10.00 -
THE FIRST DAY ON THE SOMME: 1 July 1916
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Norton, (1972.) dj. Hardcover - An account of the blackest day in British military history - on that date, the mostly volunteer British Army went over the top and into the German trenches and had 60,000 casualties in just one day. With the deaths went a loss of innocence and a confidence that the war could be won. Photographs, maps, Index. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-39305442X.
Condition: Very good in an edgeworn and fair only dust jacket.
Book ID: 37943More details Price: $14.00