The Stuff to Give the Troops (1944, first edition)
Julian Maclaren-Ross's debut collection of stories about army life
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Printing Details
First edition, first printing. Hardback, red cloth with silver titling to spine. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 164pp.
The author’s scarce debut collection of short stories, written largely while serving in the British Army during the Second World War. Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912–1964)—celebrated chronicler of Soho’s post-war Fitzrovia and the archetype for Anthony Powell’s X. Trapnel in A Dance to the Music of Time—captures the absurdities, monotony, and distinct vernacular of wartime military life. The collection includes notable stories such as "Y.M.C.A.", "I Hate Being Stood Up", and "The Swag, the Junk and the Whore", marked by Maclaren-Ross’s crisp, cinematic dialogue and dry satirical edge.
Condition
A good reading copy. The spine ends are heavily bumped, and with light bumping to the corners. The pages with tanning, consistent with the wartime economy paper. Inner binding secure, neat previous owner's inscription to ffep.
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