A Clear Premonition: The Letters of Lt Tim Lloyd to His Mother, Italy and North Africa, 1943-4

First edition, first impression.  [iv], 96pp, plus four sections of black and white plate illustrations.  Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. 8vo.  Cloth a tad pushed at spine ends else volume is neat. clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original illustrated dust wrapper, not price clipped, very slightly bumped on extreme edges. Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives

Tim Lloyd was aged just 22, a Lieutenant serving in the Rifle Brigade, when he was killed in action  near Florence in Northern Italy in 1944.  The letters he wrote to his mother, from the front line but also beforehand, from his training and from his wild days in London, are revealing.