8vo. Publisher's blue and salmon cloth; original dust jacket (spine panel sunned, chipping along extremities).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Cobb's first work, written while he worked at an advertising agency in New York City following his service in the First World War. Paths of Glory is based on the Souain corporals affair in which four French soldiers were executed by firing squad as an example to the rest of the French Army; the book was later adapted into Stanley Kubrick's 1957 film of the same name.