The Lion and the Unicorn

HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1969* Publisher: Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to red spine label. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a banner with arms of George III, red and black titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED and showing a shelf price of £2.25. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to head & tail of spine in clear protective wrapper. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Top edge coloured (blue), and slightly faded. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight offsetting marks to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: One single b/w portrait photo at frontis.* Pages: 349 pp. text. iv pp., acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: This book contains a challenge. For thirty-three years while writing the histories whose evocation of the past has made him world famous, Sir Arthur Bryant has contributed a weekly commentary to The Illustrated London News. Out of his articles on the passing scene he has made a work of art which not only re-creates the vanished world in which he grew up, with a sense of immediacy, the revolutionary years through which the nation has passed since the thirties. 'Ours is a society' he writes 'that persistently puts last things first and first things last, industrialisation before agriculture, technology before life, acquisition before function, chemistry before nature and the sate before God. We have made a god of false figures which ignore nature and, in ignoring nature, destroy the most valuable of all nature's products, the virtue and creative capacity of man.'* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor faults in a VG++ protected dust jacket.*