Author: Lt-Col F. S. Brereton [Frederick Sadleir Brereton]
Title: With Joffre at Verdun: A Story of the Western Front
Description: London, Blackie and Son Limited, [1916]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated war novel about the Western Front by Captain Brereton. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and eight monochrome plates. Collated complete, with the plates mis-bound as usual: plate to pp.75 facing pp.80, pp.146 facing pp.152, pp.147 facing pp.160, pp.202 facing pp.208, and pp.256 facing pp. 256.  In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. A war novel written by Frederick Sadleir Brereton, under his pen name Captain Brereton. The novel is set in the midst of the Western Front, a dramatic and moving novel, one of the first to be published about the First World War.Undated, dated by copies held by the British Library. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally smart with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities, marks to the rear board and a slight lean. Offsetting to the endpapers with an owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, plate to pp. 234 disbound but present, otherwise generally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with only the odd minimal spot. Very Good . Ill.: Arch. Webb. Very Good .

Keywords: First edition Frederick Sadleir Brereton Captain Brereton War Frederick Sadleir Brereton Fiction World War II Arch. Webb