Lieutenant by Sapper (20 results)

Grey hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). viii, 175pp.

Good.

New edition. Previous owner's signature. Poor copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Worn spine, staining to the front panel. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: viii, 117, [1] p.; 18 cm. Notes:"Sapper" is the pseudonym of Herman Cyril MacNeile. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Literature and the war. World War, 1914-1918; Fiction. Genre: Fiction 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, viii,175pp, owner's name on endpaper, page edges browned, text otherwise clean and sound, green cloth, black titles, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

New edition. Previous owner's signature. Poor copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Worn spine, staining to the front panel. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: viii, 117, [1] p.; 18 cm. Notes:"Sapper" is the pseudonym of Herman Cyril MacNeile. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Literature and the war. World War, 1914-1918; Fiction. Genre: Fiction 1 Kg. …

175pp. 8vo. Original cloth boards. Major foxing. Colour plates. A very good copy. From the Library of John Lane Mullins (1857-1939) whose books were donated after his death to Saint Sofia's College in Sydney University, who typically marked them with one or two unobtrusive dewey numbers, a presentation bookplate, and sometimes a manilla pocket affixed to a rear endpaper.…

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.

Hard Back. Condition: Good to Very Good. None.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Crown8vo, 316, [4] p. Original red cloth, lettered and decorated black. Light fore-edge foxing otherwise a VG copy. Thirteen titles on the verso of the half-title.

1st edition, 1915. Sapper's second book; red cloth with black lettering on front board and on faded spine. Binding tight. Pages generally bright and clean. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 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.

Hardback. VG - spine a touch sunned. First World War crime novel. No dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. 1916 Hodder &Stoughton Hardcover 1st Edition : very good clean tight binding with green cloth boards .

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: Good. Publication: London, Hodder and Stoughton, c. 1918 Formatting: 8vo, pp. [viii], 175. Condition Report: Good. The book is tightly bound in its original green cloth boards with black lettering. There is general rubbing to the extremities, mild bumping to the corners and spine ends, and the spine is sunned, resulting in darkened and slightly faded lettering. The text block remains remarkably sound and square, though the pages exhibit expected age-toning and moderate foxing, most notably along the text block edges. Housed in a clear protective archival sleeve, the volume maintains a solid and pleasing physical integrity, accented by a charming vintage bookseller's ticket affixed to the front paste-down. Catalogue Note: This is an early reprint of "Sapper" (Herman Cyril McNeile)'s classic collection of First World War short stories. While the title page is undated, the publisher's advertisement on the verso of the half-title lists The Human Touch, definitively placing this printing no earlier than that counterpart's release. The volume is notable for its provenance, bearing a striking vintage bookseller's ticket on the front paste-down from "Alex Brown, North Shore Library, Stationery, Etc." located on Cocker Street and Dickson Road in Blackpool, adding a layer of regional social history to this wartime artifact. While true first editions of McNeile's early military works are increasingly scarce, these immediate post-war reprints offer collectors an authentic period piece at a more accessible entry point, perfectly capturing the contemporary appetite for frontline narratives. Drawing heavily upon Herman Cyril McNeileâs own harrowing experiences as a Royal Engineer on the Western Front, The Lieutenant and Others is a raw, evocative collection of wartime sketches. Writing under the pseudonym 'Sapper' to circumvent military regulations, McNeile strips away the romanticised veneer of combat, plunging the reader directly into the mud, camaraderie, and grim reality of the trenches in the Ypres salient. Through his vivid, impressionistic prose, these stories capture the resilience, dark humour, and quiet tragedy of the ordinary British soldier, cementing Sapperâs legacy as one of the most authentic voices to emerge from the First World War. N/A (illustrator).…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. The lieutenant and others by "Sapper", green cloth binding, 175pp, pictorial dust-jacket. Condition: browning and intermittent spotting to pages that gets heavier towards back and front of book, binding is delicate but intact, inked name on inside of front-board, penciled name in back of book. Cover has browning to edges and shelf-ware. Dust-jacket has heavy shelf-ware and has been placed in a plastic sleeve to keep the rest of it intact. Rip along the spine with sections mission, heavy chipping, rips, pictorial part remains.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A smart edition of this story from "Sapper" with the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. With the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of short stories, some which had previously been published in the Daily Mail, which draw on the author's own experiences during the First World War. With titles such as: The Lieutenant, The Black Sheep, James and the Land Mine, Ebeneezer the Goat, and The Aftermath. Written by "Sapper" the pen name of Herman Cyril McNeile, a British soldier and author. 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. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Fading to the spine and minor discolouration to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light chipping to the extremities, predominantly the head of the spine. Sunning to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6. First edition of fifteen of Sapper's First World War tales, gathered from his earlier collections The Lieutenant and Others, The Human Touch and No Man's Land. In "The Awakening of John Walters", a dim, easygoing soldier, captured in a night raid, turns the tables on his captors and carries a German officer back to his own lines. "Sapper" was H. C. McNeile (18881937), Royal Engineers officer and creator of Bulldog Drummond. ink name and bookseller's discrete label to front pastedown; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket worn at spine ends and corners with some loss. Book.…