The Unknown Soldier by Dawson, Coningsby - 1933

New York: Independent Books, 1933. First Thus Edition. Paperback. Good. Octavo. Small corner chip to a few pages, else VG-. Binding is wraps.

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran & Co. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (wwi, fiction, war) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Newark, Delaware.: The Press of Kells, 1929. Same year, published by Doubleday.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Reading copy: pages clean, spine separated. Pages clean.. 1 3 p.l., 48 p. Blue, green-speckled paper over boards, black cloth over spine. Good quality paper. Christian-based, "Jesus in khaki", and written by the son of a preacher raised in Scotland and London, emigrating to America after college, and somewhat accomplished with his writing by the outbreak of The Great War, Dawson wrote in his preface that the idea for the story was formed under shellfire at the Battle of the Somme. He had been sent forward as observation officer to set fire to a church, the tower of which was believed to house Germans.

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owner's signature. Physical description; 63 p. ; 20 cm. Subject; World War, 1914-1918 � Fiction.

London; Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, [1926]., 1926. Hard Cover. N.d. but circa 1926. Octavo, pp. 63. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and double border in blind to upper board. Endpapers slightly toned otherwise a clean crisp copy, both binding and contents. No annotation or inscriptions. Novel based upon the Author's musings on "What would Christ have thought of the Somme if He had been there in khaki?". Rare. At time of writing, COPAC locates just a single institutional copy at Oxford. Dawson (1882-1959), the Anglo-American novelist, joined the Canadian Army in 1916 and served for the duration of the Great War. This is likely the first edition but with no stated publication date we cannot be certain.