1915-1926 Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.; The Lieutenant and Others; No Man's Land; The Human Touch; Shorty Bill

Description

First Edition

The first editions of these five volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings.

Previous owner's ink inscription to the front free end paper of Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. and The Lieutenant and Others, and to the front paste down of No Man's Land. Newspaper cutting has been pasted to the verso of the front free end paper of The Lieutenant and Others.

Five short story collections by Herman Cyril McNeile (1888-1937), originally written for the Daily Mail under the pseudonym of "Sapper". As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish works under their own names, he was given the name "Sapper" by Lord Northcliffe, owner of the Daily Mail.

McNeile was one of the most successful British popular authors of the inter-war period. He drew upon his experiences in the trenches during the First World War.

The books in this set are first editions, including a first edition copy of his first published work in book form, Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.

The set comprises:
Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. (1915)
The Lieutenant and Others (1916)
No Man's Land (1917)
The Human Touch (1918)
Shorty Bill (1926)

Shorty Bill is undated; dated through copies held at the British Library.