Popular edition. In a later, bespoke binding: bound in green half-leather over pale green cloth boards, with a six compartment spine with gilt decorations and lettering. Marbled endpapers. (Boards are clean and sharp-edged, with a very mild marks and a heavily sunned spine, where the leather is faded to brown). There is a little spotting on the first and last few leaves, and a previous owner's gift inscription dated 1928, on the front free endpaper. Tall 16mo. A small bookseller's ticket on the front paste down indicates that the volume was one in the stock of Henry Rees, a bookseller on London's Regent Street [bookseller active 1905-1949]. A collection of stories written by Major General Ernest D Swinton - the man credited with the introduction of the tank during the first world war, and for coining the term tank, as a code-name for tracked, armoured vehicles - as an entertainment for soldiers in the trenches and on the front line during the first world war. The majority of the stories, which all have a military theme - were originally published in periodical magazines, such as Blackwell's and Macmillan's. A nice vintage volume - a small slice of military history is a pleasing and unique binding.
short stories, Vintage Books, military fiction, fiction
