Side Issues by Jeffery, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine a little faded, and worn at foot. With the (discursive) bookplate of Darwin Edward Noel; ticket of Foyles, Charing Cross Road. "In the days when circumstances decreed that I should live in a battered cottage in the parish of Neuve Chapelle in company with three subalterns whose average age was nineteen years and seven months, and whose ideas - outside the theory and practice of gunnery - corresponded to their age, the arrival of Verney was in the nature of a mental tonic. He was twenty-seven, and but for the war would have been starting his career as a dilettante in the architect's profession, with means of his own and the leisure to enjoy them. The fact that he had put on uniform had not made him look like a soldier, still less feel like one. His hair was long but fluffy - not brushed back and greased according to the military fashion of the era - and he had a habit of running his fingers through it in such a way as to accentuate its fluffiness. He took no interest in the cut of his breeches, nor in the shade of polish his servant saw fit to use on his boots. He had a quiet voice, and a vague and rather wistful expression; he never swore, and he refrained from calling the enemy 'Huns' . . ." ("A Lost Soul"). Major Jeffery Eardley Marston (1887-1945) DSO MC, Royal Artillery, was also author as Jeffery E. Jeffery of Servants of the Guns (1917), Breaking Point (1921) and Escape (1922), among other titles. Darwin Edward Noel (1891-1972), during the war a captain in the Royal Artillery, was a second cousin twice removed of the author of On the Origin of Species.

Octavo, original cloth. First edition, U.S. issue. Fifteen short stories, mostly set during World War I. "The Revellers" is a dream fantasy expressing pacifistic sentiments similar to those found elsewhere in the book. Several small scratches to rear cover, a near fine copy with unopened pages in defective (about half extant) printed dust jacket. An uncommon book. (#113591).

First Edition, "Review Copy" stamp to front dustjacket panel. Collection of fifteen First World War short stories, often relating pacifist sentiments, including a dream-fantasy chapter entitled "The Revellers." Very Good with light soiling to edges in a Very Good dustjacket but for cm depth or less chipping and short closed tears to edges, few small nicks, crease to front panel and light nickel-sized water stain to front cover.