The Only Enemy: An Autobiography

First edition, first impression. 352pp, black and white portrait frontispiece. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine with red label. 8vo. Very, very lightly bumped spine ends. Light bumping to lower corners. Dusty top text block edge, all edges lightly foxed. Endpapers just starting to fox. Internally very neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear; chipping to edges. From front flap: ‘Awarded the V.C. at twenty-one, Brigadier Sir John Smyth has since followed on the flood-tide of England’s history for close on half a century, and he here recounts his life with no hint of vainglory in the direct simplicity of the telling.’