The Battle of Dorking. Reminiscences of a Volunteer
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1871. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. 64 pages, plus ads. Original purple pictorial wrappers. First separate edition of perhaps the single most influential future war story: "Before Chesney there had been little effective method in the few tales of the war-to-come that had.....