The Bystander's Fragments No 5 by Bairnsfather, Captain Bruce - 0000

Paperback. Very Good.

London, England: The Bystander. Good with no dust jacket. c 1917. First Edition. paperback. Color inset on front cover. Cover is not detached from staples but both front and back are there. Contents clean with great illustrations. Bruce Bairnsfather, the son of Thomas Bairnsfather and Amelia Every, was born in Muree, India, in 1888. Bruce's father was a Lieutenant in the Bengal Infantry. After attending schools in India and Stratford-upon-Avon, Bruce joined the British Army. Bairnsfather found army life boring and left the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and enrolled as an art student at the Hassall School of Art. After completing his training he produced advertising posters for products such as Lipton Tea, Players's Tobacco and Flowers Beer. On the outbreak of the First World War Bairnsfather rejoined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and within a couple of weeks had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. After the Battle of Mons the British Army was desperately short of trained… Read More

Pen and Sword Military, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. Very good, clean, tight condition. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

G. P. Putnam`s Sons, 1918. Paperback. Very Good. 10x7x0. 30 cm. Journal in wraps. Cover in good condition with minor shelf wear, small tears at edges. Binding in very good condition. Pages have occasional wrinkle but clean and unmarked. <br><br> A wildly popular collection of comics from WWI. The Bystander would latter remark: Letters we have received by the score from officers and men on active service in all the theatres, assure us that nothing since the war began presents the actual facts and feelings of the fighting men so realistically or so humorously as do these sketches by one of themselves.To get an immediate copy of Fragments from France is a duty you owe to yourself. No dug-out, billet or mess room will be complete without it. And if you ever feel in a generous mood towards the enemy, cheer him up too by hurling a copy over to his trenches. It will prove a high explosive of mirth, even to him.

G.P. Putnam's Sons. Hardcover. Used - Good. This Blue Hardback (unknown year) is in Good & Tight Condition. The pages are clean and bright and the binding is tight. This copy is heavily illustrated!! There is rubbing along the edges, with a small signature inside and small note next to one illustration. No other marks, writing or damage. Quick Shipping and Delivery Confirmation!

Cheltenham.: Phin Publishing Limited., 1978. 160pp, illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: The Bystander. Stapled Wraps. very good/No dust jacket. 4to, 42 pp., b/w illus., ads. WWI cartoons. Wrappers worn, foxed, chipped, and separated at spine, with corners bumped, previous owner name on front; foxing to page edges and first and last few leaves; page corners bumped.

Gloucestershire: Phin Publishing Ltd, 1978. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Large 4to. Bairnsfather, Captain Bruce. n/a. n/a Type: n/a 160pp. There are numerous examples of humorous cartoons drawn by Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather in b/w. A little shelf wear to the edges of the card covers & the spine has faded a little. Slight crease to the rear card cover. Fresh & clean. A very good, well preserved copy.

NY: Putnam. G. 1917. Blue paste down pictorial binding, gilt lettering. Owner inscription ft endpaper, edge wear. .

London: The Bystander, 1111. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Not dated; thought to be first edition and printing as title does not include a volume number. In good tan cloth boards with tipped in colour illustration of two soldiers appearing out of a hole with bombs going off with words "Well, if you know of a better 'ole, Go to it". The boards are quite dean, loose front cover; spine ends and corners bumped and frayed. Lightly marked end papers; the gussets are cracked. Tanned cut edges. The first few pages of the text block are loose from tail end; the remaining pages are quite tightly bound; slight tanning on most page edges. Good condition. With b/w or sepia illustrations on every page. No dedications etc. Not paginated. Without jacket.