BROPHY, John. The Bitter End
BROPHY, John. The Bitter End. London: J. M. Dent. n. d. [1928]. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s bright blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine with the publisher’s emblem blindstamped to front board. In the wonderful dust jacket signed ‘I. B. W.’ A very good copy, cloth gently bumped and rubbed, the binding a little loosened with a lean. Topstain bright, the contents mostly fine, a few light singular spots, with bookseller label to rear pastedown. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), backstrip a little faded with some light rubbing and a few chips to the corners and spine tips, but a nice example. Scarce.
The author’s ambitious first novel, recounting his personal experiences during the First World War. Amid the outbreak of the war, Brophy, aged 14, lied about his age and joined the British Army, serving the whole of the war, or until ‘the bitter end’. The novel follows Donald Foster into war, ‘tracing the effects of suffering and endurance on his sensitive and still developing mind’. Its conception, of course, and much like all contemporary Great War novels, took a decade to surface.
BROPHY, John. The Bitter End. London: J. M. Dent. n. d. [1928]. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s bright blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine with the publisher’s emblem blindstamped to front board. In the wonderful dust jacket signed ‘I. B. W.’ A very good copy, cloth gently bumped and rubbed, the binding a little loosened with a lean. Topstain bright, the contents mostly fine, a few light singular spots, with bookseller label to rear pastedown. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), backstrip a little faded with some light rubbing and a few chips to the corners and spine tips, but a nice example. Scarce.
The author’s ambitious first novel, recounting his personal experiences during the First World War. Amid the outbreak of the war, Brophy, aged 14, lied about his age and joined the British Army, serving the whole of the war, or until ‘the bitter end’. The novel follows Donald Foster into war, ‘tracing the effects of suffering and endurance on his sensitive and still developing mind’. Its conception, of course, and much like all contemporary Great War novels, took a decade to surface.
BROPHY, John. The Bitter End. London: J. M. Dent. n. d. [1928]. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s bright blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine with the publisher’s emblem blindstamped to front board. In the wonderful dust jacket signed ‘I. B. W.’ A very good copy, cloth gently bumped and rubbed, the binding a little loosened with a lean. Topstain bright, the contents mostly fine, a few light singular spots, with bookseller label to rear pastedown. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), backstrip a little faded with some light rubbing and a few chips to the corners and spine tips, but a nice example. Scarce.
The author’s ambitious first novel, recounting his personal experiences during the First World War. Amid the outbreak of the war, Brophy, aged 14, lied about his age and joined the British Army, serving the whole of the war, or until ‘the bitter end’. The novel follows Donald Foster into war, ‘tracing the effects of suffering and endurance on his sensitive and still developing mind’. Its conception, of course, and much like all contemporary Great War novels, took a decade to surface.