8vo. 122pp, [6]. Original publisher's black and yellow cloth boards, yellow title label; lettered in black, the dustwrapper with a stark black and cream bayonet design. Slightly edgeworn, spine a trifle cocked, wrapper worn and creased with significant loss to upper panel and spine. Internally bright and clean, with a note in Williamson's hand 'author's copy, please return when read enough', his initials and Shallowford address.

The Wet Flanders Plain records Williamson's two pilgrimages back to the north of France in the 1920s, after his experiences fighting on the Western Front.

First published by the Beaumont Press in an edition of 400 copies. 80 quarter bound in vellum (with the first five not for sale), the remaining copies bound in quarter buckram imitating the same design, published June 1929. Published the same year were the London Faber & Faber edition, slightly revised, November 1929, and the American edition by Dutton, after the Faber, purportedly December 1929.

Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition.