The Irish Guards in the Great War, Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers. Volume I:The First Battalion. Volume II:The Second Battalion and Appendices. 2 volumes

Doubleday, 1923. Very Good. Kipling, Rudyard. The Irish Guards in the Great War, Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers. Volume I:The First Battalion. Volume II:The Second Battalion and Appendices. 2 volumes. New York: Doubleday, 1923. 1st American edition. 334, 307pp. Indexed. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with slight cracks in front hinges, and cracked rear hinge on volume II. Edges are bumped and lightly rubbed, slightly frayed at spine ends. Lightly spotted and stained. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedowns. A palm-sized square of light discoloration is on verso of front free endsheet in volume I. Clean pages. Laid-in is a period photo of a man in full Irish Guard uniform whom we believe to be John Kipling, only son of the author. Both volumes contain elegant maps printed in black with red to indicate battalion movements. (Inventory #: RKIPIRI00EF)