Fairley john adaptation (1 risultati)

First Edition. Pp. 206, 16 plates; demy 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle canted, slight bruise to top edge of upper board; dust wrapper, lightly foxed on flaps and reverse, edges a trifle rubbed; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Quartet Books, London, 1978. First edition. *The story of Private Percy Topliss, 'the most extravagant anti-hero of the First World War who led thousands of British troops into mutiny on the eve of Passchendaele' [wrapper blurb].…