Massie (Chris) Red and Khaki
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or Impressions of a Stretcher-Bearer
Manchester, The Blackfriars Press, [1918].
First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers with illustration to upper wrapper, priced 2 shillings.
Massie (1880–1964) served with the RAMC in the First World War and later became a genuinely notable, if now obscure, novelist (his 1941 novel Corridor of Mirrors was filmed in 1948 in a “gloriously bizarre” production now with a cult following).
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Some light foxing; wrappers creased and slightly tanned at spine, some rubbing.
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