One Young Man

126pp. Red cloth-covered boards; black titles on spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed spine ends; some wear. Ring stain on front board. Volume cocked. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan. Endpapers just starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. Subtitled "The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western Front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme and is now on his way back to his desk" Taken from the foreword "It is no longer a secret that the real name of "Sydney Baxter" of this story is Reginald Davis and those of us who know him have watched every step of his progress from his first small job of the "pen and ledger" to the Secretaryship of a great Company"