9780582716469 - Man Alone (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 223 pages. name cut out of ffep, price clippedMan Alone is one of the foundation stones of New Zealand literature. Almost a ll copies of the first edition, published in England in 1939, were destroyed in the Blitz. When it was republished in New Zealand in 1949, after the author?s.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. Ex libris bookplate, Frank G. Glen. Neat inscription on front endpaper "To Mr J. C. K. Fabian S. M. / with the compliments of / The Welfare and Probation Service / Taumarunui / December 1974". Foxing to dust-jacket. Red lettering very faded on dust-jakcet spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1973 reprint of a novel first published in 1939. 207, [1 (blank)] pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 120mm. "Man Alone" is the author's only novel. Mulgan died in 1945, aged 33. "The two books written by John Mulgan will live. But for his untimely death, an aftermath of the war, this young writer, now remembered through his prose, might also have written fine verse." - Pat Lawlor, in "Books and Bookmen" (1954), page 203. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall M2161 (for the first edition) - "Novel of social protest in which 'Johnson' an English immigrant participates in 1932 riots and after committing murder, seeks refuge in the Kaimanawa Range and afterwars escapes to England."].