douie charles (22 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Thus. 241pp, octavo hardcover in dj. boards clean, tight binding, interior text clean. DJ covers lightly faded along spine yet clean, no tears, in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Strong Oak Press with Tom Donovan Publishing, Stevenage, Herts, UK. 1988. 241 pgs. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This is the record of the service of Charles Douie during the Great War. It was originally written as a series of articles for The Nineteenth Century and After in 1928; he later added more material for its publication as a book. His memoir is along the lines of Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War, possessing high literary merit, Douie was a well educated soldier. Douie enlisted in 1914 at eighteen years of age with a desire to become a Corporal, however his family obtained him a commission; eventually he became a subaltern in the 1st Dorset Regiment of the British Army. He opens his book with an examination of the soldier of WW1, his reasons for fighting and the existence he experienced at the front. He recounts his enthusiasm for war and wanting to get to the front before it ended; pursuing this goal against the objection of his family. His battalion participated in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 of which he was apart, fighting in the La Boisselle sector and later Thiepval which decimated his battalion. He ended the war in Italy though he has little to say about this campaign, ending his story with impressions of the Armistice on him and his fellow soldiers. Overall this is an exceptional account and has been largely overlooked except by WW1 enthusiasts who consider it a classic. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. 2009. New ed of 1929 ed. Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BGH; HBJD1; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. The jacket is rubbed and a bit damp marked to the inside.First front end page missing.Tightly bound.Fair copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. n.e.of 1929 ed edition. 244 pages. 7.17x4.80x0.55 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. viii 140p period paperback with bright cover, old paper shelfmark to front cover, from a Cambridge college library with bookplate, no stamp on title page, fresh and well preserved copy Language: English.

Zustand: Very good.

Zustand: Fair. 1952. No Edition Remarks. 239 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends.

gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. 240 Seiten Exemplar aus einer wissenchaftlichen Bibliothek Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 969.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. 1952. No edition remarks. 239 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some moderate rubbing and marking to rear surface.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 27. Weight in Grams: 472. . 2006. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 244 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.02 inches. In Stock.

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Halfbound with green cloth to spine and light green/tan paper to boards. With paper title labels to spine and front. In good condition. Spine faded. Soem rubbing and handling marks around edges of boards. Previous owners inscriptions to front endpaper. Some rubbing marks to title page. Some dark foxing spots to pages throughout. Else a tight copy. xiii + 226pp.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 239. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine. This is a period piece, set in the highest governmental circles of fifty years ago. Charles Douie knows his Whitehall, and his distinguished style suits the background to perfection. Very good plus in slightly used, complete, near very good dust jacket, with slight edgewear and slight marking at the rear. Front panel of jacket in good order showing the Palace of Westminster (designed by Biro).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very smart, first edition copy of this scarce novel by Charles Douie, enclosed in the original pictorial dust wrapper. A very smart copy of this short novel exploring the life of a political figure, Raynard Marden.Written by Charles Douie.The first edition of this work.Enclosed in the original pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart and has a small amount of edgewear and a small closed tear at the head of the rear joint and the head of the front of the wrap. Some age-toning to the interior of the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. A small amount of age-toning to the endpapers, otherwise pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

1st edition. 1st edition, 1952; bookplate on front free end paper; a few spots of foxing on page fore-edge; binding tight. Dust jacket (by Biro) not price-clipped, but a little worn at edges, with some browning Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little creased tear on the front panel, and a couple of tiny spots on the spine. Inscribed by the author: "For Tommy with love from Charles. June 1939." Two brothers of different temperament inherit an English estate, have conflicting emotions. Very scarce.

First edition, uncommon in the jacket. "If one were asked to name the book which voiced most expressively and with the greatest literary art the sentiments of the best type of junior British officer in the War, one would find it hard to select a better than this" (Falls); Lengel calls it "one of the best British memoirs". Douie served in France and Flanders with the 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment, and in Italy with the 1st Garrison Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers. "An insightful meditation on how soldiers experienced and remembered the war, and a critique of the disillusionment school of war writing. Douie does not provide a narrative of his day-to-day life at the front, which he considers too tedious to chronicle in detail, but illustrates his memoir with scenes from the Somme and Flanders, where he spent several weeks stationed on the Belgian coast" (Lengel). Falls p.193, awarding two stars (of a maximum three) for "a very good book"; Lengel 511. Octavo. Original green cloth-backed textured paper boards, paper label to spine and front cover. With dust jacket illustrated with Orpen's "Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt". Scattered foxing to edges of text block and internally; jacket spine sunned and with a few nicks, chips, and short closed tears. A very good copy.