VICTOR GOLLANCZ : A BIOGRAPHY.
by EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley, 1944- :
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Victor Gollancz, 1987. First edition. A weighty biography of one of the most influential publishers and public campaigners of the twentieth century, Victor Gollancz (1893-1967) - "I hate everything that is pro and anti (different peoples). I am only one thing: I am pro-humanity". With much passing reference to Clement Attlee, Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill, Communism, Daphne du Maurier, Adolf Hitler, the Labour Party, Harold Laski, the Left Book Club, Stanley Morison, George Orwell, Frank Pakenham, etc. Medium 8vo (24cm). [ii],782pp. Plates, portraits, etc. Original boards; top edge faintly spotted, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket, just slightly nicked and lightly spotted.
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Details
- Seller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 41332
- Title
- VICTOR GOLLANCZ : A BIOGRAPHY.
- Author
- EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley, 1944- :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Victor Gollancz, 1987.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bibliography, Publishing History, Biography
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Ash Rare Books
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Ash Rare Books. Founded in 1946 and long one of London's more interesting small book businesses. Owned and run by Laurence Worms, former President of the ABA.
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