Product Description
The scarce first edition of the reflections of a fallen soldier of the Western Front, including his own poems to the rear, in the very scarce dust wrapper.
The first edition of The Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West, a selection of diary entries and poems written on the Western Front.
Believed to have been published in 1918 by George Allen & Unwin.
In the publisher"s original cloth, in the very scarce original dust wrapper.
Only three copies of this work are held institutionally in the UK.
A bookish school student who would later study at Oxford University, West was like many young men who enlisted in the First World War, and these posthumously published diary entries and poems showcase the thoughts of a soldier on the Western Front.
Rather than simply relaying his experience, West relays his thoughts and reflections on war and the conflict as a whole.
In the publisher"s original cloth, in the original dust wrapper.
Externally, mostly smart, with slight fading to boards and spine.
Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities.
Small chips to dust wrapper edges and a large chip to tail of wrapper spine.
Light dulling to wrapper, with the odd crease and a tape mark to rear wrapper.
Small chips to wrapper edges.
Offsetting to end papers, with the odd faint spot.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages are generally bright and clean with slight age toning and faint spotting to the occasional leaf extremities.
Very Good
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