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Very good plus, bound in beige linen quarter spine stamped brightly in gold. Buff paper-coverd boards stamped in gilt. Very clean and tight throughout; virtually unread. With some dust foxing to the topstaining and a touch of foxing to the fore-edges. This copy is inscribed on the title page in red flair ink by Richard Adams to the Chaplain at Hollins College, VA.: "To Alvord Beardslee with friendship and gratitude. Richard Adams Hollins College, VA. 13th December, 1976. The Rev. Alvord Beardslee came to Virginia when the state was in the throes of Massive Resistance against desegregation. His introductory sermon was titled "Segregation is Sin. Beardslee never wavered from his liberal Christian principles during his 34-year tenure at Hollins College now Hollins University. The Rhode Island native was a religion professor and chaplain who championed civil rights, built ecumenical bonds between Roanoke Valley churches and mentored a generation of students who went on to become pastors. Beardslee, who retired from Hollins in 1993, died March 21 in Salisbury, Conn., at age 87.During his time at the all-female school, he taught several young women who would go on to become ministers during a time when women began taking more leadership roles in some congregations."He once said that Hollins had placed more women in seminaries than any other school," said Ibby Taylor Greer, a Hollins graduate and longtime friend of Beardslee." (Ralph Berrier, Jr.) Richard George Adams(9 May 1920 24 December 2016)[2]was an English novelist and writer of the booksWatership Down,ShardikandThe Plague Dogs. He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterwards, he completed his studies, and then joined theBritish Civil Service. In 1974, two years afterWatership Downwas published, Adams became a full-time author.[3][4] Richard Adams was born on 9 May 1920 inWash Common, nearNewbury, Berkshire, England, the son of Lillian Rosa (Button) and Evelyn George Beadon Adams, a doctor.[4]He attendedHorris Hill Schoolfrom 1926 to 1933, and thenBradfield Collegefrom 1933 to 1938. In 1938, he went toWorcester College, Oxford, to readModern History. In July 1940, Adams was called up to join theBritish Army. He was commissioned into theRoyal Army Service Corps[5]and was selected for the Airborne Company, where he worked as a brigade liaison. He served inPalestine, Europe and the Far East but saw no direct action against either the Germans or the Japanese.[6]After leaving the army in 1946, Adams returned to Worcester College to continue his studies for a further two years. He received a bachelor's degree in 1948, proceedingMAin 1953.[7][8]After his graduation in 1948, Adams joined the British Civil Service, rising to the rank ofAssistant Secretaryto theMinistry of Housing and Local Government, later part of theDepartment of the Environment. He began to write his own stories in his spare time, reading them to his children and later on, to his grandchildren. (Wikipedia).
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