Cable (Boyd) Between the Lines.
£275
First edition.
London, Grant Richards, 1915.
Accounts of trench warfare on the Western Front during WW1. Uncommon in the dust jacket especially one as good as this.
Out of stock
NF/VG+ – text block is slightly toned and dozed with a neatly written name to the front endpaper and a bookseller’s label to the front pastedown. The jacket is the original and correctly priced at 5/- net to the spine. It has minor chips and closed tears to the edges and someone has lightly signed their name across the front panel.
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