Frontispiece, a map, and one full-page plate from drawings by Jones. This is the first appearance of Jones's long prose-poem, which is based on his experience as an infantryman during the First World War. It went on to win the Hawthornden Prize for 1938 and was admired by many leading literary figures of the day, including W.B. Yeats and W. H. Auden, who likened Jones's work to that of the Homeric epics. T.S. Eliot was instrumental in getting the book published by Faber and contributed a short introductory essay to the 1961 reissue. Printed by Hague and Gill. In publisher's buff cloth which shows a small abrasion near spine foot, and a few minute divots along lower edge of rear cover; in the rare, fragile dust wrapper, price-clipped and with a small chip near spine foot, reinforcement to verso, and with evidence of some trimming along top edge. Better than very good overall.