esmond romilly (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. DJ is complete with light wear to edges. However, the spine is sunned. Remnants of pencil markings to endpaper. Contents are clean but lightly toned.

Zustand: Buone. italiano Condizioni dell'esterno: leggermente logorata - leggere tracce d'umidita' Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

22x14. Encuadernación editorial con sobrecubierta. 196 pgs. Texto en inglés. 673030.

Hardback. Intro. & notes to the new edition by Hugh Thomas. 196pp Macdonald, London 1971. *Personal record of the English Group of the Thaelmann Battalion of the International Brigade in Spain by Churchill's nephew. Very good copy in slightly marked dust jacket.

Hardback. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. No dust jacket; cloth boards are rubbed and worn, corners bumped and frayed, slight scratch to rear, faint speckled discolouration along outer edge; spine is slightly sunned, upper and lower edges torn and frayed with no loss, titling bright, slight crease down middle of backstrip; binding is tight though joint exposed between front endpaper and first preliminaries; previous owner's signature and dedicated message on front endpaper and pastedown, pages slightly age-toned and occasionally foxed, one or two pencil annotations appear throughout; Hugh Thomas introduction to new edition laid in. A good first UK edition. ; 5.5 x 1.4 x 8 inches; 285 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Some foxing to prelims otherwise pages clean, wear to edges. Some sunning to spine. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Spine slightly faded, some spotting of edges and prelims; dustwrapper rather worn, with some internal tape repairs. "Written with vigour and in accurate detail, [the book] affords an account, at once enlightening and provocative, of public and preparatory school life. The authors make a sweeping attack on the basis of personal experience, but they are sentimentalists no more of the 'isn't fagging wicked?' than of the 'Old School Tie' variety . . . Giles Romilly is eighteen, and Esmond sixteen, years old" (publisher's blurb). It begins: "The first days of going to school are always memorable; every detail of preparation, departure, arrival, stands out clearly in the mind for years afterwards. I can remember no day so vividly as that on which I first went to Seacliffe School, Seaford, unless perhaps the first day at Wellington College, Berkshire. I can remember what kind of day it was - warm and stuffy, like the inside of a taxicab - and what time I got up in the morning, and what I had for lunch." Aged 18, Esmond married Jessica Mitford.

First edition, first printing of a cornerstone text for historians of the Spanish Civil War. Publisher's original grey cloth with red titles to the spine, in the Abbey illustrated dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding firm and the cloth bright and fresh, the spine gently rolled. The contents, lightly spotted to the prelims and closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that remains without loss, with some toning to the rear panel and flap edges, and minor fading to the spine. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the lower front flap). Esmond Romilly (10 June 1918 30 November 1941) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who as a teenage runaway from Wellington College was among the first British volunteers to join the International Brigades in Spain (cycling across France to fight on the side of the democratically elected Spanish Republic against Franco's insurrection). He saw intensive front line action in defence of Madrid, culminating in the battle of Boadilla del Monte in December 1936. After falling ill in January 1937, the nineteen year old nephew of Clementine Churchill returned to England and whilst convalescing at the home of his distant cousin Dorothy Allhusen he met Jessica Mitford. Second youngest of seven, Jessica was burdened with two Fascists for older sisters. Diana and Unity were both friends of Hitler, and the former married Oswald Mosley. Jessica, on the other hand, was a Communist much to the chagrin of her wealthy family. She and Esmond quickly fell in love and eloped to Bayonne on the French-Spanish border, where they were married. The couple hoped to return to Spain to report on the war but were thwarted by their failure to obtain a visa. During their honeymoon, Esmond worked on his eyewitness account of fighting with the English brigades, securing a publisher's advance of £50 and resulting in the Autumn 1937 publication of 'Boadilla'. Initial sales were poor which might go some way to explaining why first editions are rare in commerce. It served as a primary historical source for many leading scholars writing about the Spanish Civil War, including Paul Preston, Hugh Thomas and Anthony Beevor. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

1971, London, Macdonald, reprint, pp196, black and white maps, green cloth in dustwrapper. Dustwrapper grubby with some loss, book good.

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece photograph of the authors, some light foxing, pp. 310, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver and lightly sunned through the jacket, lean to spine, spots to edges, dustjacket with cancel flaps (as issued), design to front and backstrip panels by J.L. Carstairs, a little chipped and nicked at extremities with some light soiling and a few spots to rear panel, very good. An account of a firebrand adolescence, written whilst both authors were still in their teens, detailing their battle with the public school system - as represented in their case by Wellington College, 'where they became allies in a rebellion against the militaristic and conservative values' (ODNB). Experiencing an awakening to left-wing politics quite at odds with the upbringing and education, they set about a programme of activism that included inserting pacifist leaflets inside the hymn-books at the school's Armistice Day service, and launching a magazine with the same title as the present account - the furore provoked by which (the Daily Mail alerted its readers to the 'Red Menace in Public Schools') led to Esmond absconding, before a brief return to the education system at the co-educational Bedales, following which they launched their literary careers with this 'precocious and unexpectedly even-tempered' work (ODNB). Both brothers continued their communist activity by joining the International Brigades to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, with Esmond there marrying Jessica Mitford - a cause for further controversy. During the Second World War, Giles, working as a war correspondent in Scandinavia, was imprisoned at Colditz; Esmond, meanwhile, had also worked as a journalist, in the US, but returned to England and disappeared whilst on service as a navigator on a flight destined for a raid on Hamburg.