Esmond romilly (12 Ergebnisse)

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: New. In English.

New Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 196 pages 23 cm. Subjects; International Brigade. Campaigns. Military participation British. Spain History Civil War. 1 Kg.

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.

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

Hardback. Zustand: Good+. 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. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Romilly's firsthand account of his service with the International Brigades during the defence of Madrid in 1936, culminating in the disastrous fighting at Boadilla del Monte. Aged eighteen, the rebellious nephew of Clementine Churchill, Romilly left England in October 1936, travelled by bicycle across France and made his way to Spain, where he joined the English speaking group of the German Thälmann Battalion (the Spanish Civil War began in July 1936). In December 1936 the unit was transferred to Boadilla, where it came under intense fire during a Nationalist offensive. Of approximately forty members of the English speaking group, only seventeen successfully retreated and seven British volunteers were killed. Romilly survived but contracted dysentery and was invalided back to England in January 1937. Written soon afterwards, Boadilla is both a remarkably immediate account of combat and a memorial to the young men who did not return. Romilly's politics are inseparable from his experience: a runaway from Wellington College and coauthor, with his brother Giles, of Out of Bounds, he had become an outspoken opponent of fascism, militarism and the conservative establishment. His decision to fight for the Spanish Republic placed him in direct opposition to the politics of much of his own social background. The book is consequently as much a document of youthful political adventure. After returning to England, Romilly met Jessica Mitford. The two soon eloped and travelled to France; Romilly wrote Boadilla during their honeymoon. The couple subsequently hoped to return to Spain, but were unable to secure the necessary visa. Initial sales were poor, and the first edition is now remarkably elusive in commerce, particularly in the original dust jacket. Romilly's account has since acquired considerable historical importance as a primary source for the early involvement of British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and has been used by historians including Paul Preston, Hugh Thomas and Antony Beevor. Romilly later served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. He died on 30 November 1941 when his aircraft failed to return from a bombing raid over Germany, aged only twenty-three. BOOK: Publisher's blue cloth boards, spine gently rolled, boards a little faded; contents lightly spotted to prelims and fore edge. DUST JACKET: Unclipped dust jacket priced 7s. 6d. net to inner flap, lightly rubbed and nicked, darkened along top edge; some further toning to the rear panel and flap edges, minor fading to spine. Jacket design by 'Abbey'; two artist brothers surnamed van Abbe, who illustrated dust jacket covers under the name.…

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. …