The Wet Flanders Plain

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1929. Book. See Description. Original Black Cloth. Revised Edition. 7 1/2" x 5". 148 pages. '...easily the best anti-war book written in English... recounts the nine days which he spent on 'The Wet Flanders Plain' when he revisited France as what he calls 'soldat retourne'... Through his ghostly eyes he sees the waste, the wickedness, the folly, in blessed proportion.' From Mr. Humbert Wolfe's review in The Observer, quoted on the dw. Hb in dw, formerly a very good copy which has sadly suffered from storage in a damp place, but is now dry and free from any aroma due to damp. However, the damp has resulted in the rear endpaper becoming completely detached; it is undamaged and could be simply re-glued to the inside of the rear board. The front endpaper is partially detached from the edges, and again could be re-glued. The black cloth binding is fairly uniformly lightened from the damp; very slight fraying at the top of the spine, at the bottom of the spine there is a 1 inch tear; at three points on the edges of the boards, each about ¼" long, the cloth has been worn through to the board below, probably from contact with a shelf. The dw is largely complete but has a 2" right-angle tear from the bottom of the spine; two separate areas approximately 3/8" square - but ragged - have been lost on the back of the dw at the lower edge; other areas show more minor losses or surface loss or thinning of the paper. No attempt has been made to repair the condition of book or dw, and careful treatment could significantly improve this book's appearance. Internally the condition is very good..