THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER.
by West, Rebecca
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd, (1918). first edition. hardcover. Very good. Small octavo (approx. 4 4/8" wide by 7 1/2" rall) 19 cm, blue cloth covers with black titles and rules. 188 pages, plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. Spine a bit dulled, front bottom corner bumped, scattered foxing on first few pages. No dust jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. Modernist World War I novel. 092508C
Synopsis
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000021135
- Title
- THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER.
- Author
- West, Rebecca
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Nisbet & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1918)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- World War I, The Great War
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