Buy this book on-line STEEGE,KLYDA RICHARDSON - Translated by: : WE OF ITALYLONDON.J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.,1917. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn.VG-. No owner inscrptn. Publisher's original plain blue cloth bds with some light,mottling/ discolouration and fading and other imperfections - all - commensurate with book's age; blind stamped single-line edged border and with blind-stamped publisher's device to centre of front board/cover,gilt blocked letters,slightly dulled/partially oxidised to spine/ backstrip,rear board/cover without blind stamped bordered edges,fairly clean plain white feps with off-set shadowing from respective pastedowns,hinges solid and sound without cracking; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - corner tips minimally bumped and rubbed - no nicks,tears,splits of fraying present.Top edges coloured with partial fading towards fore-edges,fore-edges lightly toned and with negligible foxing - much less than is usually encountered in a book of its age; contents bright,tight, clean with unusually,virtually little if any foxing,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn,vii-ixpp+2-269pp [paginated] includes author's acknowledgement, contents list/table,VIII (8) chapters,and the last pages with E.B. Browning poem and also Garibaldi's War of Independence hymn, plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w artwork illustrated frntis (by C. Coppède),title page,and a dedication with an Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem to its reverse.
A particularly uncommon true 1st edn and a welcome addition to the WW1 participants' viewpoint.
The first English translation by the author,of WW1 Italian wounded,recuperating soldiers etc. - plus others directly associated with the war,with excerpts from collected letters of same.
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