Journey's End by Sherriff R C and Vernon Bartlett (14 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. [1935?]. This book is well-worn. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Owner's Name inside. Cover worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in original black cloth with lime green title lettering to spine.No dust-jacket.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Just a little light crease line down the spine of the book and with some age toning to the text block edge.8vo 286pp First Edition 1st Impression [1930].

8vo, 286pp. A good hardback copy in like price-clipped dust jacket with light foxing, edgewear and markings. Previous owner's marks.

Condition: Good. Good condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped (no price) DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has age-toned contents, no inscriptions, 250pp.

2 nd printing, original cloth, 8°, 286 pages, Bibliothekstempel / bibliotheekstempel / cachet de bibliothčque / librarystamp an 400 Buch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: poor. [4], 308, [8] p. 20 cm. DJ heavily worn, soiled, torn and chipped. From Wikipedia: "Robert Cedric Sherriff (6 June 1896-13 November 1975) was an English writer best known for his play Journey's End, which was based on his experiences as a captain in World War I. He wrote several plays, novels, and screenplays, and was nominated for an Academy award and two BAFTA awards. Educated at Kingston Grammar School in Kingston upon Thames from 1905-1913, Sheriff maintained close links with his old school for the rest of his life, sending a copy of Journey's End to the school's headmaster after the play was first performed in 1928. R. C Sheriff remained a generous benefactor to the school until his death. In particular he paid close attention to the school rowing club, which now bears his name. With Sherriff s support the Boat Club flourished. By 1957 there were over 70 members, with their own uniform and an annual dinner. The following year, having already financed a number of boats named after a string of successful plays ("Journey's End", "White Carnation", "Home at Seven", "Long Sunset" and "Badger's Green"), Sherriff purchased a piece of land at the end of Aragon Avenue in Thames Ditton for the purpose of building a School boathouse. Completed in 1980, the building stands as a monument to the generosity and goodwill of R. C Sherriff. Sherriff served (1915 to 1918) as a captain in the 9th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment in World War I, serving at Vimy and Loos. He was severely wounded at Passchendaele near Ypres in 1917. He was awarded the Military Cross during the war. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Antiquaries of London. He first wrote a play to help Kingston Rowing Club raise money to buy a new boat. His seventh play, Journey's End, was written in 1928 and published in 1929 and was based on his experiences in the war. It was given a single Sunday performance, on 9 December 1928, by the Incorporated Stage Society at the Apollo Theatre, directed by James Whale and with the 21-year-old Laurence Olivier in the lead role. In the audience was Maurice Browne who produced it at the Savoy Theatre where it was performed for two years from 1929. Sherriff also wrote prose. His own novelized version of Journey's End was published in 1929. His 1939 novel, The Hopkins Manuscript is an H. G. Wells-influenced post-apocalyptic story about an earth devastated because of a collision with the Moon. Its sober language and realistic depiction of an average man coming to terms with a ruined England is said to have been an influence on later science fiction authors such as John Wyndham and Brian Aldiss. The Fortnight in September, an earlier novel, published in 1931, is a rather more plausible story about a Bognor holiday enjoyed by a lower-middle-class family from Dulwich. Sherriff was nominated along with Eric Maschwitz and Claudine West for an Academy award for writing an adapted screenplay for Goodbye, Mr. Chips which was released in 1939. His 1955 screenplays, The Dam Busters and The Night My Number Came Up were nominated for best British screenplay BAFTA awards." From Wikipedia: "Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett CBE (30 April 1894, Westbury, Wiltshire 18 January 1983) was an English journalist, politician and author who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1938 to 1950. After education at Blundell's School Bartlett was invalided out of the Army in World War I. As a journalist he worked for the Daily Mail, and was a foreign correspondent for The Times. Second printing before publication March 12, 1930.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG First Edition, first impression lacking DJ,signed and dated by R C Sherriff to the title page.offsetting to eps, light wear to boards.clean & tight internally. Signed by Author(s).

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1930. Limited Edition of 600 signed books this being number 130. The novelisation of R. C. Sherriff's play 'Journey's End'.'Journey's End' is set in the trenches towards the end of the First World War, giving an insight into the British Army officers' lives leading up to Operation Michael. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good lightly age toned. A very nice example. More images can be taken upon request. RefA1234. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Copy no. 514 of a limited edition of 600, signed by both Sherriff and Bartlett. Vellum spine, black cloth-covered boards in generally good condition with a few spots. Pages browned in places, no marks or annotations. Signed by Author(s).

First British Photoplay Edition with plug for film at jacket and introduction (not published with stills) directed James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man) to great success and is considered today to be one of the best early talkies to deal with the Great War. Uncommon in this format. Very Good-Near Fine tight copy.

First edition. Octavo. 285 pages. Vellum-backed cloth. Adapted from Sherriff's successful play of the same title, which was also turned into a Hollywood film under the direction of James Whale.Number 377 of 600 copies signed by both authors.Nameplate on front pastedown. Front endpapers tanned. Small mark to spine. Corners of covers slightly rubbed. Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarter vellum and cloth covered boards, issued without dust jacket. Binding very slightly cocked with the vellum soiled and front cover modestly so, corners just worn through, small four-line printed bookseller description with annotations laid down onto rear fly, a very good copy. The text is fine. A novelization of Sherriff's play, one of 600 numbered copies Signed by both authors. Sherriff had been a young officer during WWI and upon his return to civilian life as an insurance clerk became interested in amateur theater. *Journey's End*, based on Sherriff's letters to his family during the war, was written as an amateur effort but at the suggestion of a friend he sent it to George Bernard Shaw, who helped get it produced. The play, a powerful and poignant antiwar story set in the trenches of WWI, became a smash stage hit under the direction of James Whale, who had himself been a POW. With the advent of talkies, stage hits and stage professionals were suddenly in demand, and Whale was imported to Hollywood to direct the film version. He followed his debut with several other stylish moviesā"notably his classic horror filmsā"before retiring from films in 1941. The plot was reworked with an all-star cast in 1976 as *Aces High*. Sherriff also wrote or co-wrote screenplays for several other important films including *The Old Dark House, The Invisible Man* (both directed by Whale), *The Four Feathers* and *Odd Man Out*.

First edition. Octavo. 286 pages. The novel of a play which still enjoys regular revivals in the West End.Signed on the title-page by R.C. Sherriff.Ownership signature on front free endpaper. Front inner hinge cracked and neatly repaired. Free endpapers tanned. A few pages have been roughly opened at the fore-edges. Tiny scuff to head of spine. Very good in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good, slightly rubbed and with several chips.