Ian Hay [Major General John Hay Beith] — The Last Million

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The final of three volumes of this good humoured account of army life from British soldier Major General John Hay Beith. First edition. A collection of the author's good-humoured accounts of army life, describing with wry wit life in his battalion, and becoming one of the most popular stories of the time. The third volume of three written by Beith, on the strength of the first, he was sent to work in the information section of the British War Mission in Washington, D.C. Written by Major General John Hay Beith, a British schoolmaster and soldier, best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. Dated from the University of Cambridge Libraries. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages. Minor age toning to the endpapers. With a contemporary ink inscription to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .