The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Barbellion, W.N.P.

The diary of Bruce Frederick Cummings (1889-1919), begun at age thirteen, childhood in Barnstaple, Devon, working at the Natural History Museum, London in 1912, attempted to enlist in World War One, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, whose progress he documents through his journal; introduction by Tim Dee, illustrations by Ed Kluz; first published in 1919.

Publisher: Little Toller Books. First English edition thus 2010
Place Published: Wimborne Minster, Dorset
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.


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