Author: Ian Hay [Major General John Hay Beith]
Title: The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(I)" & Carrying on - After the First Hundred Thousand
Description: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915-1917. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes of this good humoured account of army life from British soldier Major General John Hay Beith. Two volumes. First edition. With a colour frontispiece to volume one. Two volumes of the author's good-humoured accounts of army life, describing with wry wit life in his battalion, and becoming one of the most popular stories of the time. This set contains: The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(I)", 1915. Carrying On - After the First Hundred Thousand, 1917. On the strength of the first novel, Beith was sent to work in the information section of the British War Mission in Washington, D.C. Written by Major General John Hay Beith, a British schoolmaster and soldier, best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the extremities. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: First Hundred Thousand Carrying On Beith Hay Carrying On None


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