[Manning, Frederic]
The Middle Parts of Fortune, Somme and Ancre, 1916
£555
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
London: Piazza Press, issued to subscribers by Peter Davies, 1929. First edition, one of 520 numbered copies only, printed on hand-made paper for subscribers, 2 volumes, 8vo, original brown buckram, title-pages in red and black, retaining the original maroon cloth slipcase (2)
Footnote
The Middle Parts of Fortune was republished the following year in a trade edition with ‘certain prunings and excisions’ as Her Privates We, and is best known under that title. The slipcase is often absent.