Lieutenant by Sapper, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very good and sound red cloth hardcover with black lettering to front board . Spine a trifle sunned. No inscriptions or marks. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 175 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. red cloth, rear hinge detached, sunned at spine, text clear, sound, decent rebinder project. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The more uncommon publishers red cloth binding, titled black. Spine a touch sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Type: Book pp. 175 Bound in pale green cloth. The boards are marked, internal joints are weak, there are pencil notes to RPD, internally the book is fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in green cloth with clear black titles to front board and spine, this dated 1915 hardcover First Edition is VG. V11/175pp with 12 short pieces/stories. Coloured image of officer, part of dustjacket, has been neatly cut out and pasted to fixed front endpaper. Small dirty mark on spine near title lettering, otherwise all VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915 8vo., green cloth lettered in black to upper board and spine; in the publishers dust wrapper priced 1/-net to spine; pp. [iv], v-vii, [i], 175, [i]; boards near-fine, internally foxed to endleaves, prelims and edges, with additional offsetting to the endpapers; the pictorial dust wrapper shelf-worn, nicked and chipped, particularly to the head of spine, with small portion of loss to the upper panel; abrasion to spine resulting in some loss of the upper layer of the paper stock, internally discretely repaired in places with archival tape.  First edition of McNeiles second book, written and published whilst he was on active duty as part of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front.  McNeile began writing about his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, the results of which were first published in the Daily Mail, with his pseudonym given to him by the owner of the newspaper. His first piece, Reminiscences of Sergeant Michael Cassidy, was serialised on page four from 13 January 1915, and the present volume, his second collection of short stories, intended to show the tears and the laughter, the humour and the pathos that go to form the atmosphere in Ypres. It is dedicated to those who have gone across the Vale of Shadows: may the earth lie lightly on them, one and all. Despite being previously serialised, the book proved extremely popular, selling almost 140,000 copies. The stories within include Ebeneezer the Goat, James and the Land Mine and The End of Wipers - Wipers  being the nickname soldiers used for the town of Ypres.  Scarce in the dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A five-volume set of short story collections by Herman Cyril McNeile, under the pseudonym 'Sapper'. The first editions of these five volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings.Previous owner's ink inscription to the front free end paper of Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. and The Lieutenant and Others, and to the front paste down of No Man's Land. Newspaper cutting has been pasted to the verso of the front free end paper of The Lieutenant and Others. Five short story collections by Herman Cyril McNeile (1888-1937), originally written for the Daily Mail under the pseudonym of "Sapper". As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish works under their own names, he was given the name "Sapper" by Lord Northcliffe, owner of the Daily Mail.McNeile was one of the most successful British popular authors of theinter-war period. He drew upon his experiences in the trenches during the First World War.The books in this set are first editions, including a first edition copy of his first published work in book form, Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. The set comprises: Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. (1915) The Lieutenant and Others (1916) No Man's Land (1917) The Human Touch (1918) Shorty Bill (1926)Shorty Billis undated; dated through copies held at the British Library. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally smart with fading to the spines and light shelf wear to the extremities. Front hinge is tender and rear hinge is slightly strained to 'No Man's Land', but both hinges remain firmly held by cords. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for offsetting and spotting to the end papers. A little age toning to the pages of 'The Human Touch'. Scattered spotting to the fore edge of 'Shorty Bill', affecting the occasional page. Very Good. book.