Description
A first edition, first printing of ‘Twelve Days’ published by Barker in 1933. A near fine book with one neat name and date to the front endpaper, with a little wear to the top of the front board. Rich top-stain is still present and the boards are in clean condition with a couple of light marks to the front board. In the exceedingly rare dust wrapper, unpriced and unclipped. Wear and a little loss to the corners. A small chip to the head of the spine fold. All plates within are included and collated.
The book records the experiences of a young subaltern who was at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge reading modern history when war broke out. He was also a member of the University Officers Training Corps and on 14th August 1914 was commissioned into the West Yorkshire Regiment. He did not sail for France until 20th July 1916 as one of several hundred reinforcements for the Regiment’s 2nd Battalion after they had lost three quarters of their strength in the July offensive. The battalion was withdrawn to rest and retrain and his account records twelve days after their return to the trenches in November 1916.
The only record of this book selling in dust wrapper was in 1937 for 6d, albeit an ex-library copy.
