Private 19022 (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. January 1930 reprint, 453 pages, very good condition in decorated cloth binding, spine darkened and slightly stained, pages in fine, clean condition, no dust-wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing of this expurgated edition of Manning's "The Middle Parts of Fortune." Pictorial coarse gray buckram. Slightly cocked, some splashes of something like tea on spine. Issued with a glassine wrapper to reveal the stunning cover, which depicts a skeletal grim reaper grasping the shoulder of an advancing soldier. (Wrapper not present.) The soldiers' language was cleaned up for this edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Her Privates We is Frederic Manning's stark, psychologically intimate World War I novel, drawn directly from his service as "Private 19022" in the Shropshire Light Infantry. This 1930 trade edition titled Her Privates We is the first public edition (the true first edition is the privately printed 1929 two?volume set titled The Middle Parts of Fortune, issued anonymously).The narrative follows Bourne, an ordinary enlisted man, through the trenches of the Somme, capturing the banality, terror, camaraderie, and moral disorientation of front?line life. Rather than focusing on strategy or heroics, the novel immerses the reader in the daily emotional and physical grind of trench warfare, emphasizing the soldiers' internal conflicts, their attempts to preserve humanity, and the surreal mixture of routine and horror that defined the Western Front. The book is widely praised for its unvarnished realism, expressive prose, and refusal to romanticize war. Ernest Hemingway and T.E. Lawrence both championed it as one of the finest depictions of men in war. Hard cover edition without dustjacket. 453 pages. Dimensions: 5.25" by 7.5". Published by Peter Davies, London. 1st printing, 1930. Natural binding. Cover defect(s): Some creasing/wrinkling. Moderate corner/edge damage. Page defect(s): Some dog eared pages. Moderate foxing. Some damp-staining or slight water damage. 2 Pound Media Shipping Rate with Multiple Product Orders. (Min Shipping Rate 1 Pound per Order). Order More and SAVE! Genre(s): World War 1 / Historical Fiction / Morality Stories / English. (B110).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Tan binding with Tan and brown illustration on front cover. 453pp Content clean, bright and sound with paper lightly tanned and small number note at top outside corner of front flyleaf. Binding and fore edges show light soil.This book may require additional postage. Photos available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo, pictorial cloth, 453pp. A classic novel of life in the trenches in World War I, from the eminent, much respected Australian novelist and poet, this the mildly expurgated version. Dust jacket flaps loosely inserted. A Very Good copy.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on hand-made paper; original brown buckram, gilt tops, uncut, marbled endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in archival film wrappers [wrappers not shown in image]. EDITION LIMITED TO 520 COPIES. Bright, crisp copy of Frederic Manning's masterpiece, published anonymously (as was the expurgated version 'Her Privates We' a year later). The frankness and detail of the story was praised by many of those who shared Manning's front line experiences (including Lawrence and Sassoon) and the work as a whole found favour with men of letters, among them Hemingway and Bennett. Today the work is recognised as the finest novel to emerge from the Great War, and one of the very finest in the literature of warfare. 'No praise could be too sheer for this book' (T.E. Lawrence). Falls, p.292.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 472. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1930 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 472.

8vo. Condition: Pictorial cloth. VG. First Trade Edition. First Trade Edition. 8vo. Published the previous year in an issue of just 525 copies as "The Middle Parts of Fortune." A great novel aboiut WW I by an Australian living in England.

453pp. 8vop. First trade edition. First trade edition. 453pp. 8vop. Published the previous year in an issue of just 525 copies as "The Middle Parts of Fortune." A great novel aboiut WW I by an Australian living in England. Publisher's pictorial oatmeal cloth of a soldier and the grim reaper over his shoulder. Fine. Bookplate of Stuart Schimmel.

First US trade edition. The book had been issued the previous year in a limited edition of 525 copies as The Middle Parts of Fortune. This edition slightly revised to remove obscenities. 8vo., original rough white cloth, spine lettered in black, pictorial decoration of Death and the Soldier to front cover. A little right spotting to lower board, neat ink name, otherwise a very good copy. This copy has the flaps from the original dust wrapper pasted on to the front and rear paste-downs. The flaps include T.E. Lawrence's review of the book, "Colonel T.E. Lawrence, author of Revolt in the Desert, says, "Her Privates We is magnificent, a book in a thousand! No praise could be too sheer for it. There are too many sides to the book for it ever to be forgotten." Her Privates We is considered to be the first WW1 account to have been written by an English private.

FIRST TRADE EDITION, pp. [vii], 453, crown 8vo, original beige cloth with a design stamped in black to upper board, dark patch at foot of backstrip, very faint partial browning to free endpapers, the original fragile transmatic dustjacket (glassine with printed paper flaps), all in one piece but the glassine chipped and creased, a little splitting to upper joint-fold, backstrip panel browned with substantial loss at head, An expurgated version, with evasions and euphemisms in place of the original's various obscenities, of Manning's 'The Middle Parts of Fortune' - published the previous year by Davies under his Piazza Press imprint, in a limited edition for subscribers. The dustjacket is a scarce proposition, on account of its fragility; here, crucially, retaining both the printed flaps - promising 'no propaganda [.] but [.] the unvarnished truth'.