Her Privates We by Manning, Frederic - 1930

London: Peter Davies Limited, 1930. A fine copy with the original intact glassine wrapper with card fold-ins also intact. Incredibly scarce in this condition. THE great novel of the First World War, published originally in a small limited and numbered edition in 1929, as Middle Parts of Fortune and an expurgated edition was published by Peter Davies in 1930. A copy of the relativley scarce first edition in fine copy with the vivid design of the skeleton looking over the shoulder of a soldier printed to oatmeal cloth front board with glassine. Here as originally, published anonymously the author was an Australian living in England. This book praised by such notable figures as Ernest Hemingway and T.E Lawrence and is indeed amongst the very best of writings on the Great War.T. E. Lawrence: "It's magnificent, a book in a thousand No praise could be too sheer for this book How admirable are its restraint, and humour, and vividness there are too many sides to the book for it ever to be forgotten". It is the war seen through the eyes of an educated private and is essential reading for those who wish to gain an authentic taste for the war. . First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.