All Our Yesterdays

First edition. Large, thick 8vo. Pp. [x], 539, [1, blank]. Publisher's black cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine, with the author's facsimile signature blocked in gilt to upper board. Pictorial dustwrapper (priced at 8/6 net to front flap). First state, with the running head error, 'Our All Yesterdays' on pp. 67. A limited edition of 1,025 numbered copies signed by Tomlinson and with a portrait frontispiece by Percy Smith was issued concurrently.

Age-toned text-block edges, else Fine, in a complete dustwrapper.

'We took to the road again. Four abreast marched with us a column of men, newly taken from their families, for gun meat. It was a motley consignment of respectable fathers, still smelling of their trades, and raw from the homes they had just left.' (p. 303.) A semi-autobiographical anti-war novel by the well-respected journalist, essayist and official World War I correspondent, which spotlights the aftermath of the Boer War as a factor in its outbreak.

"[I]t is a very fine book. Certain of its scenes, as that when the principal character drives from G.H.Q. to revisit his old comrades in the trenches, are perfection itself." –Falls.

[Falls, p.299; NCBEL IV, p.749]