The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme & Ancre, 1916. [Her Privates We]
by [Manning, Frederic]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: The Piazza Press, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes, full brown cloth binding with gilt lettering & box to spine, page edges untrimmed, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. #43 of 520 copies. The limited edition (trade edition published as Her Privates We), a novel of WWI which Ernest Hemingway claimed to read annually, so that he wouldn't forget "how things really were.
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- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002685
- Title
- The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme & Ancre, 1916. [Her Privates We]
- Author
- [Manning, Frederic]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Piazza Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- modern first editions war novel
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Crooked House Books & Paper
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Portland, Oregon
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Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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