WITH HAIG ON THE SOMME: A story of the Great War.
Illustrated by T. H. Robinson. Pp. 284(last blank)+[4](advertisements), coloured frontispiece, plus black & white text illustrations (some full page); cr. 8vo; red cloth, lettered in white and decorated in black with rectangular coloured pictorial onlay on upper board, the boards a trifle canted, edges lightly rubbed, spine faded; the free endpapers slightly offset, hinges tender at a couple of points, short closed tear to fore-edge margin pp. 33/4, some light foxing and soiling; Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London, 1918. Reprinted. *First published in 1917. Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of George Herbert Ely (1866-1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867-1947), who were both staff members of Oxford University Press. Together they wrote and edited numerous stories for boys and (under the name 'Mrs. Herbert Strang') girls. Item #172658
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