John Buchan [ed]; Captain G. Valentine; Captain Neil Macmillan — The Long Road to Victory

London, Thomas Nelson and & Sons, 1920. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce collection of wartime tales, contributed to and edited by John Buchan, with illustrations by Steven Spurrier. The first edition of this very scarce work. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, and eleven monochrome plates. Collated, complete. A collection of short stories on the First World War from soldiers, edited and contributed to by John Buchan, the popular Scottish author. The stories cover subjects such as the battle of Ypres in 1914, the Battle of Loos, and other notable wartime events. In the publisher's original binding. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally excellent with slight fading to the spine and minimal edge wear. Bookplate of J. L. Weir to the front pastedown, with light offsetting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages. Light tidemarks to the extremities of several plates. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Steven Spurrier. Very Good Indeed .