first edition
1929 · (London)
by (MANNING, Frederic)
(London): Piazza Press, 1929. First edition of Manning's masterpiece, one of the finest novels of the Great War. Limited to 520 copies printed on handmade paper. In Men At War, Ernest Hemingway called The Middle Parts of Fortune: "the finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read. I read it once each year to remember how things really were so that I will never lie to myself nor to anyone else about them.. A few faint signs of rubbing to the spines, otherwise a fine set in the scarce original cloth box. 2 volumes, small 8vo, marbled endpapers, original brown buckram, t.e.g., ribbon bookmark, original cloth slipcase. A few faint signs of rubbing to the spines, otherwise a fine set in the scarce original cloth box. (Inventory #: 2690)