Douglas Brown Christopher Serpell (8 results)

No. 13. Condition: good/acceptable. good The British Publishers Guild no. 13 - 1941 edition paperback book with acceptable d/w In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 142 pages. Cover worn. Spine and text tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Loss of Eden, A Cautionary Tale by Douglas Brown and Christopher SerpellFirst edition, second impression October 1940Hardback book with dustjacket which is slightly scuffed at spine edges and a small open tear at foot of front cover.Spine is slightly coked but internally book is clean and tightly boundThis is a fictional story based on what might happen to Britain should Hitlere be in chargePublished later as 'If Hitler Comes'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pp. 251. Yellow cloth covers. Title, Publisher and Swastika in red on spine. Covers stained, Spine and details faded. Corners adn spine neds lightly bumped & rubbed. Small half inch split along part of upper rear spine edge. Occasional internal spot. Else internally good+. The book poses the question what would happen if Hitler was to win the war. In the foreword and dedication he dedicates the book to those who will not let this happen," The exceedingly rare first edition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 90 grams. Half the back page is missing see photograph. A Guild Six. Guild Books No. 13.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First. A very good copy. Postulating what would happen should Hitler win the war. Lacking the jacket. Tanning to the spine and a little bumping, some wear to the edges, neat inscription from a former owner reading 'a lot of nonesense' (read into that what you will).

FIRST EDITION, pp. 251, crown 8vo, original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in red, very light spotting to cloth, top edge a little dusty, dustjacket bright with merest hint of sunning to backstrip panel, very good. A wartime alternative-future novel by two journalists, depicting Britain under Nazi rule - narrated by a New Zealander, 'writing retrospectively as an eyewitness from the security of the Antipodes' (blurb); subsequently published under the title 'If Hitler Comes'. The blurb figures it as not so much 'a thriller [.] as a flesh-creeper'; T.S. Eliot, possibly the author of that blurb, wrote in his reader's report for Faber that it 'kept my attention like a horrible dream'. Serpell was a Yorkshireman, who attended Merton College, Oxford; his co-author is more obscure. The book is scarce.…

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Presents a historical picture of England with Hitler and the Nazis in control.KlappentextPresents a historical picture of England with Hitler and the Nazis in control.