John sproston (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Story is based on youthful personal experience. Main characters are two very young men, a gay English college student and a straight German police officer who meet and experience a very close friendship which is valuable and important to them both. The year is 1959 when Hitler's extreme anti-gay laws were still on the books in West Germany and still occasionally enforced due to lingering homophobia in Europe. This affected the relationship, which was never physical, but could impact a police officer's reputation if known. The college student has little experience of travel outside the United Kingdom. His first travel experience was to Paris, France, at age twenty, which encouraged him to select Spain and Germany for his next destinations. He was curious about Spain's status as a dictatorship and the contrast with Germany, which was now a democracy after experiencing the years of the Third Reich up to the end of WW2. His new friend, the German police officer, has progressive political views which both share and discuss. The difficulty for the gay college student is the intensity of his affection for his friend, who cannot reciprocate it; he likes the student only as a close friend whose friendship he values. After WW2, the extreme anti-gay statutes imposed by Adolph Hitler were not rescinded until the nineteen sixties, so were still recognized and occasionally enforced at the time the action of the story takes place, given homophobia still common in most European societies. Therefore, as a member of the police force, the officer's friendship with a gay individual could put him at some risk.…

Hardback. Zustand: Below Average. Hardback copy. Spine a little shaken and some paper separation at front inside. Front cover a little Generally good. xii, 122pp,b/w plates. Bookplate inside cover. Size: 26x19cms. Book.

Second edition "revised and reset" (first published in 1940); 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 128; title page printed in red and black; 20 plates (1 folding and in color); fine copy in a very good dust jacket. "John Glendy Sproston served as officer aboard the U.S.S. Macedonian, frigate in the fleet of the first Perry expedition to Japan. From Japan the ship was ordered by Commodore Perry to visit the Ryukyus, Bonin Islands, Formosa and the Philippines. His careful and accurate accounts of what occurred along the way from Tokyo to Manila cover the few eventful months between 15 February 1854 and August of the same year" (jacket blurb).…

Zustand: Good. Vellum bound commonplace book compiled by Hannah Rushton Caine Roberts daughter of William Sproston Caine. M.P. and wife of Sir Herbert Roberts, M.P.Consists of manuscript poetry, press clippings, documents, drawings, original photographs. About 44 pages of documents.William Sproston Caine (26 March 1842 - 17 March 1903) was a British politician and temperance advocate. He was elected to the House of Commons for Scarborough in 1889 and represented the extreme radicals. The Albany Observer. June 27, 1890:"Mr. Caine, M.P. for Barrow in theLiberal-Unionist interest, has deficit lydecided to resign his seat in the Houseof Commons and seek re-election, withthe object of testing the views, of hisconstituents on the question of com-pensation to publicans deprived of theirlicenses under the new- Licensing Act.Mr. Caine will stand as an. independentLiberal opposed to the Government.A local faction of politicians has decidedto run a Radical candidate in opposition.It is understood this action does notmeet with the approval of Mr. Gladstone.The -Liberal-Unionists are alsoselecting a candidate, and are sanguineof winning the seat. The generalopinion is that there will be a verysharp contest.".Sir Herbert Roberts :(8 August 1863 - 19 December 1955), known as Sir Herbert Roberts, 1st Baronet,[from 1903 to 1919, was a Welsh Liberal politician. Roberts] was the son of John Roberts, of Abergele, Denbighshire. He was elected to the House of Commons for Denbighshire West in 1892, a seat he held until 1918. Between 1912 and 1918 he was Chairman of the Welsh Liberal Parliamentary Party. Roberts was created a Baronet, of Brynwenalt of Kilmaron, in 1903 and in 1919 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Clwyd, of Abergele in the County of Denbigh. Lord Clwyd married Hannah, daughter of William Sproston Caine and Alice Brown Caine, and granddaughter of Hugh Stowell Brown, in 1893. She died in 1951. Clwyd died in December 1955, aged 92, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Trevor Roberts.[3] His second son was the composer Mervyn Roberts (1906-1990).…