HERBERT, A.P. The Secret Battle. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1919. First edition, 8vo (187 x 116mm.) Half-title, 32pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear. (Browning to half-title.) Original red cloth (slight sunning to spine, minor discolouring to lower cover). Note: scarce. Based on his experience in the First World War, Herbert’s first novel was one of the first descriptions of the Battle of Gallipoli. – And approximately seventy-three further volumes by or about A.P. Herbert, mostly first editions (including ‘The House by the River’, [first U.S edition], 1921, 8vo, and ‘Why Waterloo?’, signed by the author, 1952, 8vo, and ‘The Ayes Have It’, signed by the author, 1937, 8vo, and ‘Holy Deadlock’, signed by the author, 1934, 8vo, and ‘What a Word!’, signed by the author, 1935, 8vo, and ‘The Right to Marry’, 1954, 8vo, and ‘Full Enjoyment’, signed by the author, 1952, 8vo) (74).