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Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1935
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1935. First Edition. 309 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. With photographic frontispiece. Includes ex libris plate of Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Hinges are cracked, with some exposed netting and a loose binding. Frontis loosening. Occasional slight pencil marginalia. Text block edges moderately water stained. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Pronounced tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has a notable forward lean. Water and ring marks to boards and spine. Silver lettering dulled and worn.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1935
Seller: Sonnets And Symphonies, Bristol, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Fair; firm binding; contents good; slight foxing to endpapers; a little spine-cocked; faded to spine; no dust jacket. Hard Cover Hamish Hamilton 1935 Biography.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1935
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo. Violet cloth with silver lettering to the spine. Black and white frontispiece photograph of authors. Book is slightly cocked and the spine is faded. Previous owner's signature to the front endpage. Otherwise fine. Esmond and Giles Romilly were Winston Churchill's nephews, 'tho at the opposite end of the political spectrum. Both fought in Spain against the Fascists, and Esmond subsequently died in WW2 ; Giles was captured, later escaped a German POW camp and enjoyed a long literary career. The two brothers edited a public school magazine also named OUT OF BOUNDS that included a number of leftist and anti-fascist articles. The published book is a combination of youthful memoirs/ political manifesto related with wit and verve, and was well received by the radical intellegentsia of the time.
Published by [London]: Hamish Hamilton, 1935
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Spine slightly faded, some spotting of edges and prelims; dustwrapper rather worn, with some internal tape repairs. "Written with vigour and in accurate detail, [the book] affords an account, at once enlightening and provocative, of public and preparatory school life. The authors make a sweeping attack on the basis of personal experience, but they are sentimentalists no more of the 'isn't fagging wicked?' than of the 'Old School Tie' variety . . . Giles Romilly is eighteen, and Esmond sixteen, years old" (publisher's blurb). It begins: "The first days of going to school are always memorable; every detail of preparation, departure, arrival, stands out clearly in the mind for years afterwards. I can remember no day so vividly as that on which I first went to Seacliffe School, Seaford, unless perhaps the first day at Wellington College, Berkshire. I can remember what kind of day it was - warm and stuffy, like the inside of a taxicab - and what time I got up in the morning, and what I had for lunch." Aged 18, Esmond married Jessica Mitford.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1935
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, frontispiece photograph of the authors, some light foxing, pp. 310, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver and lightly sunned through the jacket, lean to spine, spots to edges, dustjacket with cancel flaps (as issued), design to front and backstrip panels by J.L. Carstairs, a little chipped and nicked at extremities with some light soiling and a few spots to rear panel, very good. An account of a firebrand adolescence, written whilst both authors were still in their teens, detailing their battle with the public school system - as represented in their case by Wellington College, 'where they became allies in a rebellion against the militaristic and conservative values' (ODNB). Experiencing an awakening to left-wing politics quite at odds with the upbringing and education, they set about a programme of activism that included inserting pacifist leaflets inside the hymn-books at the school's Armistice Day service, and launching a magazine with the same title as the present account - the furore provoked by which (the Daily Mail alerted its readers to the 'Red Menace in Public Schools') led to Esmond absconding, before a brief return to the education system at the co-educational Bedales, following which they launched their literary careers with this 'precocious and unexpectedly even-tempered' work (ODNB). Both brothers continued their communist activity by joining the International Brigades to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, with Esmond there marrying Jessica Mitford - a cause for further controversy. During the Second World War, Giles, working as a war correspondent in Scandinavia, was imprisoned at Colditz; Esmond, meanwhile, had also worked as a journalist, in the US, but returned to England and disappeared whilst on service as a navigator on a flight destined for a raid on Hamburg.