Oasis by Baldwin Oliver (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1st edition. cloth, G+. 320pp, index, lacks fep, cloth rather faded to upper board and spine, contents clean and tight. An odd mix of personal thought and biography, set in Algeria. Contains lots of annecdote, including stories about the BBC, filming in the Sahara, female emancipation etc etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 320 pages. The contents of a fictional sort deal with the narrator is a writer in Algeria who sends his experiences about many things to a gorl about to experience her first London Season. According to the wrapper it covers; The BBC + Free Love + The Oxford Group + The Abyssinian War + Women on the Shelf + Socialist International + The Scandal of the Divorce Laws + Christ in Modern Palestine + Youth in Germany and Italy (fascism) + Trade Unionism and Popular Front. With several Eastern stories woven into the narrative and all within a mystery! Green cloth boards, with wrapper torn with part loss on the spine and back, front also has a closed tear across. Contents all tight and clean with. A small neat inscription to endpaper dated 1947. Fair wrapper only. Good to VG contents. *Author was the son of Stanley Baldwin he became a Marxist and Labour MP for Dudley in 1929 and served under Ramsay Macdonald's Labour government facing his defeated father across the House. …

Condition: Good. A lot of dirty marks, a few small tears, fading and wear on jacket. Also slight shelf wear and fading on cover and foxing on outer edges of pages. Content is fine.