When Carruthers laughed

Sapper. When Carruthers laughed. Second reprint. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, June 1935. Hardback, FAIR, no dustjacket. Blue cloth, bumped, rubbed and stained with small cloth tear to head of the spine. Black decoration and lettering faded. Binding good, but cracked along the front gutter with some webbing showing. Light foxing to endpapers. Small 'Leisure Library' stamp to front and rear pastedowns. Ffep missing? 319pp. Light foxing towards the end, otherwise contents clean and bright. Herman Cyril McNeile, MC (28 September 1888 14 August 1937), commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names, he was given the pen name "Sapper" by Lord Northcliffe, the owner of the Daily Mail; the nickname was based on that of his corps, the Royal Engineers. He was one of the most successful British popular authors of the inter-war period before his death in 1937 from throat cancer, which has been attributed to damage sustained from a gas attack in the war. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.