The Stuff to give to the Troops. Twenty-five Tales of Army Life angling Turquoise cloth with the Max

Turquoise cloth with the Max Ernst designed dust-jacket

Text pages slightly toned

Ronald Victor Courtney Bodley was a British Army officer

New York: The Macmillan Company

Reprint of the 1898 illustrated edition

The Stuff to give to the Troops. Twenty-five Tales of Army Life angling Turquoise cloth with the MaxLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1944. First Edition of author's first book. 164 pages. Original crimson cloth with silver title lettering spine, bright and unrubbed, with the unclipped dust jacket, designed by Hans Tisdall, spine of which is slightly faded and mildly rubbed at corner tips; overall bright and unmarked. Without inscriptions. A fine copy. Author's first book which is seldom found in the fragile, paper jacket (due to wartime restrictions), and