Grey Dawn-Red Night by James Lansdale Hodson Great War first edition 1929

HODSON, James Lansdale. Grey Dawn - Red Night. 
 
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. 
 
First edition, 8vo, pp 287. Publisher's black cloth; with the striking original Gollancz yellow dust jacket and wraparound band. Minor wear and faint chipping at head and tail of spine, a few short, closed tears, and a chip to the band, but an unusually fresh copy. Publisher's "Archive copy" or "File copy" stamped to jacket, title page and front pastedown. Very good. 
 
An important anti-war novel of the late 1920s, often compared to All Quiet on the Western Front. Hodson, a Daily Mail Journalist and Great War veteran, based his narrative on his own service with the 3rd Public Schools Battalion - the dedication poignantly reads: "to those...who went to France with me and did not return."