memoirs fronts (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. NY 1933 1st Scribner. Snowdon was former Austro-Hungarian spy. Hardcover. Octavo, 330pp., black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Signed by Snowden on front end paper. Good plus, spine lettering half rubbed off, no DJ.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [6], vii-xviii, [2], 1-330, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; light brown topstain. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a black and white photograph frontispiece. Inscribed in the year of publication by the author: "To Mr. Mark J. Lacey, with the author's best wishes - Nicholas Snowden New York City, December 9, 1933." Snowden served as a spy for the Austrian empire during the First World War, and worked mostly in Russia and then in Hungary after the Russian revolution. His novel recounts his stint as a POW in Russia, his torture at the hands of the Hungarian authorities, and his escape to Italy. A blindstamp from a private owner on the title page, toning on the pastedowns; jacket with moderate edge wear and a crease on the rear flap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition of Rodker's anonymously published memoirs. Inscribed, 'Darling, Jimmy, May 1932'. Rodker was known as 'Jimmy' to many of his friends from his early days in the east end of London. Spine cocked. Stain to the front board. Inscribed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION, faint spotting to prelims, receding into text and recurrent at rear, pp. 262, crown 8vo, original oatmeal cloth, backstrip lettered in black and faintly sunned with lean to spine, edges slightly toned and very faintly spotted, good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'For Kathleen, from John, Apl 1932'. The recipient was probably the dancer Kathleen Dillon, with whom Rodker had been in a relationship - as well as collaborating on theatrical productions - before his marriage to Mary Butts in 1918. A scarce work by an important modernist figure - as printer and publisher, as well as author and translator. The novel is a fictionalised memoir in three parts, with the central section recounting the author's experience as a conscientious objector in the First World War - including an unflinching portrayal of his time at Dartmoor. Though published anonymously, a portion of this central section had earlier been published in France - in a translation by Ludmila Savitzky - under the title 'Dartmoor'. Aside from the book's own scarcity, presentation copies - as the work's anonymity would dictate - are uncommon.