glassop (9 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. 2nd Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good Condition. Covers a little faded at lower and fore edge, some rubbing to spine edges and corners. 226 pages. The sequel to 'We Were The Rats'. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Horwitz Publications, Sidney, 1965, pb, 3rd impression, Horwitz Australian Library, creasing and tanning to spine, covers are a little worn at the edges and there is some tanning and marking, pages lightly tanned with age, there is an ownership inscription on the title page, a good secure binding, overall a good copy for its age [B5319] [Box 33].

Boards. 2nd Edition. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 226. Near-fine in good, rubbed d.j. Novel based on the experiences of Australian soldiers in New Guinea, WWII.

8vo; pp. (xiv), 276; original cloth, some staining to edges, previous owner's name, a very good copy. . First edition. An iconic Rats of Tobruk novel.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 257 pages. cover and spine tanned, writing on inside cover, text in good condition.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15x22cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. the age-toned dustjacket has some minor loss to spine ends and corners and is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Previous owner's details to half-title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 275pages. The author was a war correspondent and used this experience to write this classic war novel.

Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1944. First edition. Octavo, brown cloth over boards (canted), in the rare illustrated dust jacket by Frank Hodgkinson (defective, splits and tears repaired with old brown paper), 275 pp; foreword by Norman Lindsay; contents clean and sound. Author and journalist Lawson Glassop served in the Middle East between 1940-1943, during which time he worked in Cairo as an editor on the Australian army newspaper, the AIF News. His novel We were the rats is based around the experience of Australian soldiers at the siege of Tobruk in 1941. Glassop collaborated with two of Australia's major artistic talents of the time, Frank Hodgkinson and Norman Lindsay, in producing his book, which was published in Sydney in late 1944 while the war in Europe and the Pacific still raged. He arranged for his friend, Sydney artist Frank Hodgkinson (1919-2001) to design the dramatic image that adorns the dust jacket. Hodgkinson had enlisted in the AIF at the outbreak of World War II and had served as an official war artist in the Middle East - with Glassop - and in North Africa, New Guinea and Borneo. The book also has an interesting connection with Australia's most popular artist of the period, Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), who provided the foreword. During the war prints of Norman Lindsay's risque works were popular morale boosters among Australian troops - including the now-legendary Rats of Tobruk. Lindsay, like Hodgkinson, was a personal friend of Glassop. Although the first edition sold reasonably well, all was not plain sailing for Glassop. From the ADB: "On 24 April 1946 Glassop found himself famous when a Sydney magistrate held that certain passages inWe Were the Ratswere obscene and imposed a £10 fine on the publishers, Angus & Robertson Ltd. During the proceedings the chief police witness, Sergeant Roy Munro, had testified that the word 'bloody' in the text was offensive to him. On 13 June Judge Studdert dismissed an appeal, ruling that thirty-one pages of the book were 'legally obscene' and describing passages in chapter 31 as 'just plain filth'.".