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“The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read”. T. E. Lawrence remarked that “No praise could be too sheer for this book . . . it justifies every heat of praise.” An expurgated edition, Her Privates We (taken from the line in Shakespeare’s Hamlet immediately following “the middle parts of fortune”), was published the following year. Manning never achieved lifetime fame and died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Hampstead in 1935, and it was not until the reissue of the full text in 1977 that the novel received the recognition that it deserved. 2 volumes, octavo. Original brown buckram, titles gilt to spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut, red silk bookmarkers. With original red cloth slipcase. Spines slightly rolled, tips very faintly rubbed, otherwise a fine set, with the slipcase only a trifle rubbed here and there. £1,500 [120858]
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, double rule border in blind to front cover enclosing gilt vignette. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy, some trivial spotting to fore edge, the jacket a little sunned to spine panel, and minimally nicked at ends and corners. £2,750 [154054] 68 MANN, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927 First edition in English, signed limited issue, number 120 of 200 copies signed by the author. The novel, one of the defining works of 20th-century German literature, was first published in Germany as Der Zauberberg in 1924. 2 volumes, octavo. Original japon vellum-backed patterned paper boards, lettering to spine in gilt. Housed in a custom grey cloth slipcase preserving original label. Frontispiece portrait of the author by E. O. Hoppé in first volume and facsimile of final page of author’s manuscript in second volume. Minor dampstains to front cover of volume 1, extremities slightly rubbed, original label on slipcase worn with abrasions; a very good set. £3,500 [153007] 69 MANNING, Frederick. The Middle Parts of Fortune. Somme & Ancre, 1916. London: The Piazza Press issued to subscribers by Peter Davies, Ltd, 1929 “it justifies every heat of praise” First edition, first impression, the original unexpurgated text, number 433 of 525 copies thus. The first edition is extremely scarce complete with its rather ill-made original slipcase. On publication it was hailed as a powerful personal vision of the Great War. In Men at War Hemingway described it as
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