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Hodder & Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No edition remarks. 319 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Preface dated 1926. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable mottling to boards. Heavy sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Notable cocking to spine. Mild water stains and droplets to surfaces.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. reprint. red bds, dampstain to bottom area of front bd. faded area to bottom of back bd.. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good. N.D.. First Printing. Hardcover. Good and sound red cloth with black decoration to front board. Early edition, ownership inscription to front endpaper dated 30thJune 1926 ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 319 pages .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935 Red blind-stamped cloth titled in black on spine, red top edges and endpapers. Tight and square, clean boards, faded at spine tips, very light foxing in edges and endpapers, a small name in front. Dust jacket is unclipped and bright, wear to corners, slight loss at spine ends, protected in a removable clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A gripping work of fiction set during the First World War, by British soldier and author, Herman Cyril McNeile, under the pseudonym Sapper. This is the twelfth edition of the work, in original publisher's red cloth binding and original unclipped dust wrapper. This work was first published in May 1926. This work was written by Herman Cyril McNeile, a British soldier and author who often drew on his personal experiences in the trenches during the First World War. During the war, McNeile had many short stories published in the Daily Mail, and then continued writing fiction post-war, often under the pseudonym Sapper. He is most well-known for his detective series of Bulldog Drummond. This particular work features 'Shorty Bill', a character who appears in McNeiles previous works 'No Mans Land' and 'The Human Touch'. This work appears eight years after the other two novels, as McNeile explains that war novels stopped being… Read More