Cutforth Rene (22 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 222 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Cutforth, Rene? Biography.Cutforth, René 1909-1984. Journalists Great Britain ; Biography. Voyages and travels. Genre; Autobiographies. Autobiography. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo slight stain to rear D/W. Book.

1st edn. 8vo. Original blue lettered dark red cloth (casing with slight lean - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (spine and covers sunned - in protective wrapper, price clipped). Pp. 222 (no inscriptions).

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 222 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Cutforth, René Biography.Cutforth, René 1909-1984. Journalists Great Britain ; Biography. Voyages and travels. Genre; Autobiographies. Autobiography. 1 Kg. …

Condition: Good. 1969. Reprint. 222 pages. Orange jacket over purple cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends.…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 222pp, slight browning on edges, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good condition in frayed and unevely faded dustwrapper. ISBN: 0571091032.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. 222 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Witty and easy to read though his adventures are, they are not superficial. This is one man's record of four low, dishonest decades.…

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, fading and loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Six radio programmes that the author had broadcast about Britain.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 160pp, illustrated, owner's name on endpaper, edges browned, text clean and sound, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. not price-clipped. ISBN: 0715371231.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. A report on his life & times, NOT an autobiography - he points out.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 192 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Quarter bound red leather with red cloth covered boards. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition.…

Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. This mint unmarked copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The price clipped dust wrapper is in fine condition having been covered in clear, removable, archival, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. René Cutforth (6 February 1909 in Derbyshire - 1984) was a British broadcaster and writer. Reynolds Cutforth came from Woodville, Burton on Trent, and was educated at Denstone College which he entered in September 1922. His first job was with the Midland Bank. Having seen service in the Army in Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Western Desert Campaign, and having been a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany, he joined the BBC in 1946. He became well known as a broadcaster and travelled the world as a BBC correspondent. He reported on the Korean War. Reviewing one of his programmes, The Forties Revisited, the critic Clive James wrote in The Observer: "Cutforth is that rare thing, a front man with background. Fitzrovia and Soho weigh heavily on his eye lids. His voice sounds like tea-chests full of books being shifted about. Ref AAA4. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cutforth, Rene. Rene Cutforth reporting. First edition. London: Arco Publishers, May 1955. Hardback, VG, no dustjacket. Blue cloth, a little bumped to corners and ends of the spine, slightly sunned to spine. Gilt lettering and microphone illustration to spine. Binding strong. Light tanning blocks to endpapers. 195pp., map, b/w photographs. Contents clean and bright. Foxing to edges of the page block. The author's thoughts on old cars ; English pubs ; Soho ; fairs and markets ; accents and attitudes; and English cheeses. René Cutforth (6 February 1909 - 1 April 1984) was a British journalist, television and radio broadcaster and writer. He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation on return to England in 1946, and became a well known broadcaster and travelled the world as a BBC correspondent. He reported on the Korean War. Reviewing one of Cutforth's television programmes, the critic Clive James wrote in The Observer: "Cutforth is that rare thing, a front man with background. Fitzrovia and Soho weigh heavily on his eyelids. His voice sounds like tea-chests full of books being shifted about." RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Schnitt staubig, innen sauberes Exemplar.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 4to. 409 - 452pp. Original publisher's white paper printed covers, black titles, bw illustration of flower stall by Diego Rivera Mexico on front. Two staple staple hinges through. Bw photo of Stalin seated at desk + articles on the death of Stalin & the war in Malaya & the Flood. Closed 2cm tear on front cover, Browned along edges. Contents clean & tight. VG.…

3rd printing. A book of reminiscences. "Each chapter has a self-contained feeling which comes from the necessity to focus on an event or place.Witty and easy to read though his adventures are, they are not superficial. Order to View is one man's record of four low, dishonest decades. It's both valuable social history and good literature." (New Statesman). Pp.222, inscribed by the author "Paul, best wishes. René Cutforth" [prob. Artist and author Paul Hogarth] to front free endppaper, small spot to closed fore-edge not affectinng pages inside. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear but is in a removable clear protective wrap. Plus: black and white photograph of the author and a handwriitten letter from his widow, Sheila, loosley enclosed, as well as a one page handwritten summary of his life. VG/VG.** "René Cutforth (1909 -1984) was a British journalist, television and radio broadcaster and writer. His first job was a clerk with the Midland Bank. In World War II he saw active service as a commissioned officer with the British Army in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and fought in the Western Desert Campaign, where he was taken prisoner of war in 1941, spending the remainder of the war in prisoner of war camps in Italy and Germany. He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation on return to England in 1946, and became a well known broadcaster and travelled the world as a BBC correspondent. He reported on the Korean War. During his television broadcast career he wrote and produced several documentary series, including, Bird's Eye View (a televisual study of the British Isles from the air), and The British Empire - Echoes of Britannia's Rule . Reviewing one of Cutforth's television programmes entitled The Forties Revisited, the critic Clive James wrote in The Observer: "Cutforth is that rare thing, a front man with background. Fitzrovia and Soho weigh heavily on his eyelids. His voice sounds like tea-chests full of books being shifted about.".He died in his 76th year at Great Maplestead, in the county of Essex on 1 April 1984." (wiki).…

Condition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original powder blue paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 6¼''. Contains 195 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Spine ends and bottom corners creased, sun fading to the spine, ghosting to the free end papers and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. The B.B.C. (Broadcasting).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression, INSCRIBED by the author to ffep in 1952. The book is Good overall with some spotting and a slight spine roll, in Fair only Keith Vaughan designed jacket which has rubbing at joins, a little loss at spine ends and a tear along bottom of rear spine join.…

First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 192. Photographs. A firsthand account of the Korean War.Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Small dark patch at tail of spine. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper, designed by Keith Vaughan, with a chip to tail of spine. Scarce in decent condition.