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Chapman & Hall, Date: 1933. ~Original red and black cloth, top of spine frayed with small loss. Spine slightly faded. Traces of library sticker (Boots?) to inside rear board. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. 1st edn. Hardback. Good. 291pp. No dustwrapper. Binding sound, text unmarked. 1933. Chapman & Hall [GB]
[publisher: Chapman & Hall] Hardcover First Edition ~Original red and black cloth, top of spine frayed with small loss. Spine slightly faded. Traces of library sticker (Boots?) to inside rear board. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: 291pp. No dustwrapper [Oxford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1933]
[publisher: Chapman and Hall] FIRST EDITION, pp. 291, crown 8vo, original black boards with an overall design of rags printed in red (of course), backstrip lettered in red, a couple of faint waterstains to fore- and top edge of textblock, dustjacket with backstrip panel slightly sunned and with a small waterstain at foot, very good. A scarce book. The contributors to this volume include Shamus Frazer (New College, his Oxford novel 'The Acorned Hog' advertised on the rear flap), Robert Speaight (Lincoln College), Edward Tangye Lean (University College, brother of David Lean), Renée Haynes (St Hugh's College, the daughter of E.S.P. Haynes), G.E. Trevelyan (Lady Margaret Hall), Thomas Hodgkin (Balliol College), et al. in general, recent graduates, a couple still up, contemporary with the editor. Oxford is the point of origin, rather than the destination, of the ire collected in these pages, which aspire to 'the most complete and frankest expression of the Oxford mind there has yet been'; it does so, avowedly, on behalf of the 'outlook of the younger generation', and the authors featured are all of the generation born in the first decade-and-a-half of the century (pre-War). A 'concerted gesture of hatred' it may be, but the targets, and the strength of the vitriol, vary amongst the eighteen essays: John Connell (Balliol College, pseud. for John Henry Robertson) criticises the purveyors of 'sex-bunk', particularly as ...
[publisher: Chapman and Hall] FIRST EDITION, pp. 291, crown 8vo, original black boards with an overall design of rags printed in red (of course), backstrip lettered in red, a couple of faint waterstains to fore- and top edge of textblock, dustjacket with backstrip panel slightly sunned and with a small waterstain at foot, very good. A scarce book. The contributors to this volume include Shamus Frazer (New College, his Oxford novel 'The Acorned Hog' advertised on the rear flap), Robert Speaight (Lincoln College), Edward Tangye Lean (University College, brother of David Lean), Renée Haynes (St Hugh's College, the daughter of E.S.P. Haynes), G.E. Trevelyan (Lady Margaret Hall), Thomas Hodgkin (Balliol College), et al. in general, recent graduates, a couple still up, contemporary with the editor. Oxford is the point of origin, rather than the destination, of the ire collected in these pages, which aspire to 'the most complete and frankest expression of the Oxford mind there has yet been'; it does so, avowedly, on behalf of the 'outlook of the younger generation', and the authors featured are all of the generation born in the first decade-and-a-half of the century (pre-War). A 'concerted gesture of hatred' it may be, but the targets, and the strength of the vitriol, vary amongst the eighteen essays: John Connell (Balliol College, pseud. for John Henry Robertson) criticises the purveyors of 'sex-bunk', particularly as ...
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