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N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. 1st thus, [n.d.] orig. 1928. (From the books listed at rear panel it would seem this was published in 1934). Blue cloth with red lettering. Neat gift inscription at front end paper. Page edges age toned, elase a fine, tight copy in dust jacket, flap corners narrowly clipped, front cover lightly soiled and rubbed, shallow loss at top spine ends and flap corners. It is 1914 Germany, and war is certainly imminent. Olivia Dunbar, a British subject, is working as secretary for judge Dr. Von Nentsch; at his home. His home, is adjacent to Schlatz Castle; which is being used as a prison for German military officers. Olivia is alone one night when she encounters a man outside her window. He enters, and identifies himself as Major Vivian Abbott, a British officer. He tells a story of being stranded and seeking money for train fare. Then they hears the cannon sound from the Castle, a signal that a prisoner has escaped - and Abbott confesses it is he. He asks a sympathetic… Read More

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2008. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. The first of two books in what famed critic Anthony Boucher called "a single long and magnificent novel of drama, intrigue and humor." When Drink to Yesterday first appeared in Britain in 1940 and in the U.S. in 1941, it was immediately heralded as a departure from the fanciful spy-and- intrigue novels that preceded it. Gone were complicated passwords, deadly dames in black velvet, and dashing aristocratic secret agents. Here, instead, was what Howard Haycraft, the genre's first historian, termed "a mood of subtle understatement," calling Drink to Yesterday and its immediate sequel, A Toast to Tomorrow, "superior" examples of this revamped genre. Drink to Yesterday was based on the early life of one of its two collaborators, Cyril Henry Coles, who left school, lied about his age and enlisted as a teenager in the British army during World War I. He was transferred… Read More

Silver Spring: MD: Adventure House, 1997. First Adventure House Edition, November 1997. With a full color cover by Frederick Blakeslee and John Fleming Gould handling the interior illustrations, the book is a facsimile reprint of the original pulp published in 1936. A fine, as new copy. First Thus. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Illus. by Blakeslee, Frederick. Digest.

NY, NY.: Farrar 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. A historical look at Lenin during the terrible years around World War I. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1985. 1st ed. Near fine copy of the advanced Uncorrected proof. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1985. 1st ed. Slight spine slant else near fine in dust jacket. ""These lads here are on the run from the Army, it doesn't matter which Army, there's only one sodding huge Army in the whole world." The speaker is Australian Arthur Viney, leader of a multinational pack of WW I deserters who occupy a tract of land near the site of the Allied Somme offensive. The group is joined by a pair of young deserters, German aristocrat-turned-infantryman Lothar von Seeberg and British soldier Josh Routledge. Lothar and Josh share a special attachment; each has been devastated by the loss of a brother during the war; when Lothar saves Josh's life at their first meeting, a bond of surrogate brotherhood is sealed between them. How they fare in the company of Viney's clan, who are wanted by British Capt. Jack Denial for the murder of a woman he loved, constitutes the plot of this imaginative war story. But it is Hill's… Read More