Edited by Peter Vansittart (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Bump to top right hand corner of the front board otherwise a firm, clean copy in complete dustwrapper.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition book and DJ not price clipped. No tears, no inscriptions. Pictorial DJ black boards. 404 pages. The Kings and Queens of Britain stalk the pages of this marvellously entertaining anthology as if they were alive today, vividly evoked not only in their own words but in those of their contemporaries - lovers, rivals, courtiers, critics - and of others writing in later years with the wisdom of hindsight.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. H/B copy in Very Good Condition. The book is clean and Tightly bound throughout. The D/J is in good condition, no rips or tears evident No Inscriptions. Free Postage within the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition. 307pp. Pages noted in pen on rear fly, bottom corners bumped, very good in a very good dampstain with internal thin tideline along bottom edge.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. uncreased spine. 303 pages clean and tight. Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Sigfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain -voices famous and unknown - Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the trenches with music-hall songs, and the words of poets and politicians. Linking the public and the personal, the history with the myth, his rich and unorthodox anthology forms a moving image of everything that went into the War, and culminated in its 'scalding waste of spirit'. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth with bright giltr titling on spine. No ownership marks 266 pages clean and tight. John Paul Jones (1747-92) was an argumentative, highly original Scottish seaman. At sea from the age of 12 he commanded slave ships and merchant ships until, following a murder charge, he fled to America. In the War of Independence he was the only rebel to land on English soil, attempting to fire Whitehaven Harbour, off Flamborough Head. With thousands watching, he captured an English flagship. In his adventurous career he was knighted by Louis XVI, made an Admiral by Catherine the Great, awarded the Congress Gold Medal for Valour by George Washington. In America he is often regarded as the founder of the US Navy. Controversies about this, and about his difficult, pugnacious nature, are the main themes of this story of adventure, violence, disappointments and triumphs in the era of the French and American Revolutions, and the growth of Russia as a world power. Size: 8vo.…