Bullets and Billets - By Bruce Bairnsfather

Hardcover third impession December 1916, published by Grant Richards, no jacket. The boards are lightly worn and marked in places, and the spine is slightly cocked. Internally there is some minor marking (a few larger marks in the inital pages) and creases to some of the pages. Illustrated with sketches. From the foreword by the author: "Down South, in the Valley of the Somme, far from the spots recorded in this book, I began to write this story. In billets it was. I strolled across the old farmyard and into the wood beyond. Sitting by a gurgling little stream, I began, with the aid of a notebook and a pencil, to record the joys and sorrows of my first six months in France. I do not claim any unique quality for these experiences. Many thousands have had the same. I have merely, by request, made a record of my times out there, in the way that they appeared to me."