Return of the Brute. London: Mandrake Press, 1929. First Edition. Pp,, 187. Tan cloth covers title in green to spine, original pictorial dust jacket depicting a gruesome scene in the trenches of the First World War. A very good copy.

Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper.

Extract form the blurb:

‘Nine men go Over the Top in mud and rain and darkness, urged on by an Authority invisible and remorseless somewhere behind the lines, to seek a Foe they are destined never to encounter. Liam O’Flaherty served as a private in the Irish Guards and was wounded at Passchendaele, and he knows what he is writing about. This is a man’s book for all time: or for as long as men shall die together in comradeship, bravely and blindly.’