The Hun Hunters
( GREAT WAR ) ( TRENCH HUMOUR ) ( WWI ) ANON
THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Grant Richards, 1916
Stock code: 23257
Price: £85.00
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with cartoons throughout, some light age-soiling as usual; original pictorial boards, ivory cloth backstrip lettered in black, very neatly recased with original front cover (moderately age-marked) laid down, a good, bright, firm copy.
Featuring 'Sergeant Tombs, whose Passion for Experiment led him to Destruction'. A wonderful example of sardonic 'Tommy' humour from the trenches, somewhere between Belloc's 'Cautionary Tales' and Graham's 'Ruthless Rhymes'. SCARCE.