Her Privates We

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Los 357 | Her Privates We
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Her Privates WeInscribed by Ernest Hemingway[HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961) – MANNING, Frederic (1882-1935).] Her Privates We. London: Peter Davies, 1930. Manning's celebrated Great War novel, inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to Eric Knight: “To Eric Knight from Ernest Hemingway who would give three toes off each foot to have written it.” Frederic Manning's novel was first published anonymously as The Middle Parts of Fortune, and was based on his own experiences of the Battle of the Somme as a private in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. The limited edition was followed by the expurgated and abridged first trade edition under the title Her Privates We "by Private 19022" (Manning's army number) the following year, which brought the work wide recognition. It is still considered "one of the finest accounts of war ever written" (Dominic Hibberd, ODNB). Hemingway inscribed several books to Knight over the course of their friendship. British-born Knight lived and worked for most of his life in America and is best known for his classic children's book Lassie Come Home, published in 1940, which was made into a film starring a young Elizabeth Taylor in 1943. The present copy is the fourth printing. Octavo. Original pictorial cloth (spine darkened, some soiling). Provenance: Eric Knight, 1897-1943 (gift inscription).
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