The Diary of a French Private War - Imprisonment 1914-1915 illustrated with a hand-written card indicating

with a hand-written card indicating this to be a presentation copy from the author

same year as first

and NAGW-123

Original cloth with the excellent

The calligraphic illustration on the past page (p183) is by Brion Gysin

The Diary of a French Private War - Imprisonment 1914-1915 illustrated with a hand-written card indicatingLondon: George Allen & Unwin, 1916. First English edition, originally published in French as "Journal d'un Simple Soldat" by Hachette, Paris, 1916. 8vo. Mid blue cloth, spine well rubbed and slightly faded, gilt lettering, edges of board rubbed in places. pp 315, [5] adverts. Spotting to endpapers and general light toning to text pages. An about VG copy. An uncommon title on the travails of a captured French infantryman during world war one.