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London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1970. [Military Satire] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.205 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth (a variant, as this title is usually bound in red cloth), with gilt titles to spine and top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey. Neat gift note in ink. Lightly handled, a few short tears to jacket, price clipped. Very good. The first in a series of military comedies chronicling adventures of the hapless Private McAuslan, who demonstrates his unfitness for service in a Highland Regiment during the Second World War. By the author of The Flashman Papers. Item #73713
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