Love and the Loveless: A Soldier’s Tale.

WILLIAMSON, Henry.

$100.00

Item Number: 128063

London: Macdonald & Co., 1958.

First edition of the seventh novel in the author’s semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.

Phillip Maddison, a young officer and veteran of the battles of 1914, 1915, and 1916 is obsessed with the Great War. He is never near enough to it and manages to return to battle each morning because the girl he loved was killed in a Zeppelin raid and because he is sustained by the friendship of comrades who like him. He has found himself in a world of death, which he endures with the help of whiskey, water, and an unnatural courage.