Lot 292
![[Manning, Frederic]](https://media.app.artisio.co/media/104cbde6-0d38-43cb-9e0f-bb721ef57bcf/inventory/831ebc99-57da-429f-a430-8422bfd4ec4a/cb64f22a-e45c-4728-9758-83571ab929f0/0001_tIhGCc_original.jpg)
[Manning, Frederic]
The Middle Parts of Fortune, Somme and Ancre, 1916

Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
£555
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.
