Knights Gambit by Guy Pocock (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 295 pages. First edition, first printing. Blue cloth boards. Shelf wear to edges, remains of label front cover, previous owner's signature front pastedown, dusty and tanned edges. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED on front endpaper : Best Wishes from the author; no dust wrapper ; a little wear on spine ends ; a fresh,crisp copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 295. Original publishers blue cloth, lettered gilt at spine. The publisher's own retained copy with their perforated file copy stamp on first 4 pages and label on the front pastedown reading 'file copy - published 7th Feb. 1929.' Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine slightly darkened, covers very slightly marked, some mild spotting of prelims. On the front endpapers the pencilled notes of the historian Hugh Cecil; in the text his few marginal pencillings. A wartime school story. "'The point is, sir, that I've decided that I'll have nothing to do with the killing - so long as I am perfectly safe and comfortable myself. I'll do anything else - help in the hospital making swabs and things - but while I'm safe here I will not help to kill men and boys I know nothing about.' 'Know nothing about! The boy's mad. Haven't you learnt enough in the last two years to know that every German is a savage at heart?' 'I don't believe it.' 'At least you can understand that if you refuse to help your own people you are helping the enemy?' 'I don't refuse to help our own people,' Aubrey persisted. 'I'll do anything else - but I won't kill.' 'This is sheer treason!' exclaimed the horrified major. 'I shall report the matter to the head master and see what he has to say about it.'" Guy Noel Pocock (1880-1955) taught at Cheltenham College, 1905-14, and at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1914-23. From 1934 to 1940 he was Head of General Talks and the Adult Education Department at the BBC.