Mr. Poilu. Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French. With an introduction by Sydney S.Pawling.

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First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. xx, 158pp. Cloth-backed boards with paper spine and title labels. With a title page decoration and forty-six superb tipped-in plates including a number in colour. Edges spotted, the boards a little marked, soiled and chafed, and with some tanning and dust marking to the labels. A sliver of moisture marking to the base of the upper board. Front free endpaper lightly toned, and with four small adhesive labels to the front pastedown which probably once secured a clipping or plate. A good copy. No dust wrapper. Contemporary former owner inscription inked to the head of the half-title. Ward, a noted explorer and sculptor, lived in France for fifteen years prior to the outbreak of the First World War and was then attached to the British Ambulance Committee where he was mentioned in dispatches and decorated with the Croix de Guerre. This is his account of that period, presented in words and images. N° de ref. del artículo BC18458

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