explosion von wren (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1938. Cheap Edition. 464 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Heavy foxing to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Mild mottling to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Later India Novels Part A contains two novels, Beggars' Horses, published in America in 1943, after Wren's death, as The Dark Woman, and Explosion which never saw an American publication. Beggars' Horses is the story of six British army officers who have a confrontation with an Indian fakir or Holy Man. The six officers are asked what they would 'wish' for. One asks for great strength, the others ask to be healthy, to live a long life, for happiness, for great wealth, and for great courage. The rest of the story is how the six men obtain their wishes and how 'a dark woman' interacts with them. Explosion deals with a plot by Indian agitators to use a large bomb to kill British officials and destroy several buildings: a literal explosion. The main characters are Anthony Steele, the Superintendent of Police, and Betty Gopaldas, an young English woman married to an Indian, who is one of the group of agitators planning the explosion. With Betty, being infatuated with Steele, he is able to persuade her to help him uncover the bomb plot. There are minor plots about British society in an Indian city during the British Raj, and Wren is able to convey the thoughts and feelings of a strong Imperialist in favor of British rule.

London: John Murray, 1935. First edition. 464,(4) pp. Publishers red cloth. No dustjacket. Owners stamp to back of titlepage and owners gilt stamped monogram to front board. Spine faded. Boards a bit thumbed. 19 x 13 cm.[#\79233].

464pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, title faded with a couple of dints on backstrip. Some foxing to edges and early pages. Name on front pastedown and first page of text. Spine a little canted, otherwise a very good copy in bright dustwrapper. . First Edition, colonial issue.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition, colonial issue of this thrilling novel about resistance to the British Government in India. In the bright publisher's original illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition, colonial issue, of this thrilling novel from English author Percival Christopher Wren,from the Murray's Imperial Library series. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Set in India in the 1930s, the dust wrapper advertises that this work 'while avoiding propaganda, gives a picture of the methods whereby a certain class of politically minded unscrupulous Indian agitator hopes and intends to overthrow the British government'.With a sixteen page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated April 1st, 1935. A smart copy of this thrilling and politically charged novel, scarce in the original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip head and tail. Boards bright and clean. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip, with marks to rear wrap. Chipping to back strip head, with small losses to back strip head and tail. Edge wear to top edge of front and rear wrap, with significant spotting to dust wrapper reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to first and last few leaves, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

First edition. Signed by Wren and with his bookplate. 8vo. 187x120mm. pp. 464, [4pp publisher's list]. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine. Lacking the scarce dust jacket but the striking front cover of this has been pasted onto the front free endpaper. Fading and soiling to spine and some slight foxing but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Wren which is signed by the author. The title page is stamped with the name "F.N.Ablewhite". Wren's purpose in this colonial adventure novel can perhaps be best summed up by reference to its dedication to the "Friends of India, the real India of three hundred million unrepresented peasants, whose sole "political aspirations" are that the peace, the security, the justice, and the protection provided by the British Raj may for ever remain to them undisturbed, unweakened and unchanged".