Gunner's Diary

Sydney: Ure Smith, Ltd, 1943. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 56pp; illus. Tight, square copy, Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 7'/6 at base of front flap), lightly rubbed and edgeworn, Verty Good. An attractive copy.

Extracts from the field diary of Donald Friend, written while he was a gunner with the Australian Imperial Forces in the south Pacific. Friend went on to become a highly-regarded artist whose late career was sullied by his own admissions of sexual predation of young boys.