Britain's Home Guard. A Character Study. With text by John Brophy and colour portraits by Eric Kennignton. (SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR)

First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by both the author and illustrator on the front free endpaper (both Brophy and Kennington were themselves Local Defence Volunteers). A review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid-in (this copy having been sent to true crime specialist J. H. H. Gaute, with his type-written name to the comp. slip). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Red cloth lettered in ruled in gold at the spine. With nineteen full-colour and predominantly full-page character studies by Eric Kennington (whose subjects include Sir James Griss, Viscount Bridgeman, and various sergeants, privates and other Home Guard regulars). A narrow sliver of fading to the lower edges of the boards. A very good copy in somewhat tatty dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with some soiling, chipping, tearing, and several quite small areas of edge-loss.