Smith (Helen Zeena, pseud. Evadne Price) “Not so Quiet…”
£250
Stepdaughters of War
London, Albert E. Marriott, 1930.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
Originally commissioned to parody Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), this spirited and somewhat brutalising account of the First World War instead became a serious, harrowing novel, in part based on the (now lost) diaries of Winifred Young, who served in France during the war as an ambulance driver. Uncommon.
In stock
Internally very good; cloth very good; jacket with some wear to top edge leading to slight loss to head of spine, minor marking.
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