peter singleton gates maurice girodias roger (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1959 ('special edition')/ 1959. Tall octavo, 536 pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs) and a map plus an errata slip mounted on the verso of the half-title, and endpaper maps. Cloth slightly bumped at the top corners; edges a little discoloured, with the top edge foxed; a very good copy with the good unclipped dustwrapper a little worn, and moderately sunned on the spine. A small label mounted on the verso of the title page states this is number 711 of a maximum of 2000 copies of a 'special edition' issued by Sidgwick & Jackson. The edition comprises copies of the first US edition (Grove Press, 1959), with a variant dustwrapper and a 'London | Sidgwick & Jackson' label mounted over the original publisher's details at the foot of the title page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. VG cloth in a worn DJ. 626 pages : illustrations, maps (on lining papers) ; 26 cm. Limited edition of 1500 (no. 47) with Appendix: the 1911 diary. Contents: Foreword Introduction Irish childhood Africa The Congo report The 1903 diary Africa (conclusion) The Putumayo The 1910 diary The Putumayo report The Putumayo (conclusion) The awakening of Ireland The trial The aftermath Appendix: the 1911 diary.

AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY, WITH TWO UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT LETTERS CITED IN THE STANDARD OLYMPIA PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY. One of 2,000 copies of the first British edition. (Actually this "British edition" was created by taking 2,000 copies of the first American (Grove Press) edition to England, putting a sticker over the imprint, and issuing a new dustjacket.) LAID IN ARE TWO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TYPED LETTERS SIGNED--ABOUT 1,000 WORDS--FROM THE EDITOR, SINGLETON-GATES, on his letterhead, to a correspondent in Nothern Rhodesia (later Zambia) (!). In these unpublished letters, written during the 1960s, Singleton-Gates describes his feelings towards Casement. He also describes, in passionate terms, the fascinating circumstances surrounding the publication of these scandalous diaries, and the numerous obstacles he faced, including copyright and censorship issues. He furthermore explains his various other projects relating to Casement, none of which came to fruition. It is fair to say that these letters shed considerable light on the limits of press freedoms in Britain during the late 50s and 60s, as well as on the way Casement's heirs felt about his legacy. THESE LETTERS ARE CITED--and briefly excerpted--on pp. 60-61 of Patrick Kearney's bibliography, The Paris Olympia Press (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2007). Also laid in are numerous newspaper clippings from 1959 and 1960, all relating to the publication. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Fine and bright, in a very good price-clipped dj.