From the front panel of the publisher's unusual dustjacket: "On the occasion of Wilfrid Jelf's death in October 1933 [the year has been altered in ink from 1934], Lord Gorell wrote: 'He had been terribly gassed in the War; he gave his life for his country as surely as though he had fallen in the trenches . . . So closes one of those lives of chivalry, strength and courage upon which perennially, in peace and in war, the fame of the British soldier sits enthroned.' "
The text opens with tributes to the author by three of his friends, Charles Tennyson, Brigadier-General C C Lucas and Field-Marshal the Lord Milne. Five of the author's nine stories are from the Anglo-Boer War, the others from the First World War.
Plastic-protected oatmeal dustjacket printed in black on four faces (one with an order form for the Cornhill Magazine, which had accepted the author's stories for publication), blue cloth-boards, black to the upper panel and spine, plain endpapers, frontispiece portrait of the author + vii + 151 pp.
CONDITION. The dustjacket, now protected in plastic, has a sunned spine and there is a small amount of material missing from both spine-ends and three of the four corners. The boards are lightly shelf-rubbed and have a few foxing spots on the outer hinges. Bookplate of Jean van der Byl on the front pastedown. Unmarked but page-edges lightly tanned.
Now rare.
- Jacket Condition: Good (repaired)
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 190 x 135
- Sold By: Fontein Books
- Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
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