Author: HENRY-D.DAVRAY
Title: Chez les Anglais pendant la Grande Guerre. [Among the English during the Great War].
Description: Librairie Plon, Paris, 1916. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition. 8vo. 295pp. Card wrappers. Paperstock tanned and a little brittle, with a lengthy horizontal tear to eight consecutive text leaves. Former owner name inked to the head of the upper wrapper and dated 1917. A good copy. Text in French. Henry Durand-Davray was a noted French critic and translator, and a friend of Oscar Wilde (he translated 'The Ballad of Reading Goal'). During the Great War he was a war correspondent and official delegate of the French government, and this book is a record of his 1915 visit to England which included a visit to the Canadian Camp at Salisbury Plain and observing Kitchener review units of the New Army. Good.

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