Ford Maddox Ford. First edition thus (Borzoi edition). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. There is some minor chipping on spine. No writing or markings found in the book, other than former owners signature on fly leaf page, 256 pp. With an interpretation from Mark Shorer.
Considered Ford's best novel, and an important development of non-linear narrative literary technique. Named to the Connolly 100 best novels. Many critics and author agreed (see back of dust jacket), The Good Soldier, first published in 1915, "was one of the fifteen or twenty greatest novels produced in English in our century."
Ford starting writing The Good Soldier right before World War I. He was a second Lieutenant in the British Army when he recieved the proofs from his publisher.
