Esmond Romilly (32 results)

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Boadilla. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Illustrated revision and practise for Computer Science.Over 500 marks worth of examination style questions.Answers provided for all questions within the book.Illustrated topics to improve memory and recall.Specification references for every topic.Examination tips and techniques.Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of revision guide for the 2020s. This guide has been expertly compiled and edited by successful former teachers of Computer Science, highly experienced examiners and a good dollop of scientific research into what makes revision most effective.Past examinations questions are essential to good preparation, improving understanding and confidence. This guide has combined revision with tips and more practice questions than you could shake a stick at. All the essential ingredients for getting a grade you can be really proud of.Each specification topic has been referenced and distilled into the key points to make in an examination for top marks. Questions on all topics assessing knowledge, application and analysis are all specifically and carefully devised throughout this book. Illustrated revision and practise for Computer Science. Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of revision guide for the 2020s. This guide has been expertly compiled and edited by successful former teachers of Computer Science and highly experienced examiners. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: New. In.

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Condition: Good. DJ is complete with light wear to edges. However, the spine is sunned. Remnants of pencil markings to endpaper. Contents are clean but lightly toned.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. UK hardback reissue from 1971. Near fine in VG unclipped jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Rubbing and minor edge wear to jacket, including a few short tears. Owner inscription to copyright page. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 290 pages.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Illustrated revision and practise for Computer Science.Over 500 marks worth of examination style questions.Answers provided for all questions within the book.Illustrated topics to improve memory and recall.Specification references for every topic.Examination tips and techniques.Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of revision guide for the 2020s. This guide has been expertly compiled and edited by successful former teachers of Computer Science, highly experienced examiners and a good dollop of scientific research into what makes revision most effective.Past examinations questions are essential to good preparation, improving understanding and confidence. This guide has combined revision with tips and more practice questions than you could shake a stick at. All the essential ingredients for getting a grade you can be really proud of.Each specification topic has been referenced and distilled into the key points to make in an examination for top marks. Questions on all topics assessing knowledge, application and analysis are all specifically and carefully devised throughout this book. Illustrated revision and practise for Computer Science. Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of revision guide for the 2020s. This guide has been expertly compiled and edited by successful former teachers of Computer Science and highly experienced examiners. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Condition: Buone. italiano Condizioni dell'esterno: leggermente logorata - leggere tracce d'umidita' Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

brossura Copertina flessibile. Condition: Good. Copertina flessibile plastificata; pagine integre Copertina flessibile 201 Buono (Good) . Book.

brossura Copertina flessibile. Condition: Good. Copertina con segni d'uso. Libro in buone condizioni Copertina flessibile 197 Buono (Good) . Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

22x14. Encuadernación editorial con sobrecubierta. 196 pgs. Texto en inglés. 673030.

Collana "Nuovi Coralli", 73. Un volume di 197 pagine, brossura editoriale illustrata. Dimensioni: 11,5x19,5 cm. Minime tracce del tempo alla brossura, interno in ottime condizioni. Introduzione di Hugh Thomas, traduzione di Mariapia Ghisalberti.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Dark brown boards and spine, the latter lettered in gilt. The front board has an area discoloured to a lighter brown 10 cm x 4 mm. The jacket, holding the book tight, shows a figure with a red flag; light shelf wear with little loss and no tears; soiled, particularly the rear white panel and the spine which is faded and browned so only the faded red letters of the title and the publisher show. Internally clean and unmarked except for foxing to rear free endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1st ed. thus dust jacket Near Fine octavo 196p., map, Account by a member of the British Battalion of the International Brigade. Owner's bookplate o/w nice copy. Uncommon.

Hardback. Intro. & notes to the new edition by Hugh Thomas. 196pp Macdonald, London 1971. *Personal record of the English Group of the Thaelmann Battalion of the International Brigade in Spain by Churchill's nephew. Very good copy in slightly marked dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Fair; firm binding; contents good; slight foxing to endpapers; a little spine-cocked; faded to spine; no dust jacket. Hard Cover Hamish Hamilton 1935 Biography.

Hardback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. No dust jacket; cloth boards are rubbed and worn, corners bumped and frayed, slight scratch to rear, faint speckled discolouration along outer edge; spine is slightly sunned, upper and lower edges torn and frayed with no loss, titling bright, slight crease down middle of backstrip; binding is tight though joint exposed between front endpaper and first preliminaries; previous owner's signature and dedicated message on front endpaper and pastedown, pages slightly age-toned and occasionally foxed, one or two pencil annotations appear throughout; Hugh Thomas introduction to new edition laid in. A good first UK edition. ; 5.5 x 1.4 x 8 inches; 285 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Some foxing to prelims otherwise pages clean, wear to edges. Some sunning to spine. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Spine slightly faded, some spotting of edges and prelims; dustwrapper rather worn, with some internal tape repairs. "Written with vigour and in accurate detail, [the book] affords an account, at once enlightening and provocative, of public and preparatory school life. The authors make a sweeping attack on the basis of personal experience, but they are sentimentalists no more of the 'isn't fagging wicked?' than of the 'Old School Tie' variety . . . Giles Romilly is eighteen, and Esmond sixteen, years old" (publisher's blurb). It begins: "The first days of going to school are always memorable; every detail of preparation, departure, arrival, stands out clearly in the mind for years afterwards. I can remember no day so vividly as that on which I first went to Seacliffe School, Seaford, unless perhaps the first day at Wellington College, Berkshire. I can remember what kind of day it was - warm and stuffy, like the inside of a taxicab - and what time I got up in the morning, and what I had for lunch." Aged 18, Esmond married Jessica Mitford.

First edition, first printing of a cornerstone text for historians of the Spanish Civil War. Publisher's original grey cloth with red titles to the spine, in the Abbey illustrated dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding firm and the cloth bright and fresh, the spine gently rolled. The contents, lightly spotted to the prelims and closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that remains without loss, with some toning to the rear panel and flap edges, and minor fading to the spine. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the lower front flap). Esmond Romilly (10 June 1918 30 November 1941) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who as a teenage runaway from Wellington College was among the first British volunteers to join the International Brigades in Spain (cycling across France to fight on the side of the democratically elected Spanish Republic against Franco's insurrection). He saw intensive front line action in defence of Madrid, culminating in the battle of Boadilla del Monte in December 1936. After falling ill in January 1937, the nineteen year old nephew of Clementine Churchill returned to England and whilst convalescing at the home of his distant cousin Dorothy Allhusen he met Jessica Mitford. Second youngest of seven, Jessica was burdened with two Fascists for older sisters. Diana and Unity were both friends of Hitler, and the former married Oswald Mosley. Jessica, on the other hand, was a Communist much to the chagrin of her wealthy family. She and Esmond quickly fell in love and eloped to Bayonne on the French-Spanish border, where they were married. The couple hoped to return to Spain to report on the war but were thwarted by their failure to obtain a visa. During their honeymoon, Esmond worked on his eyewitness account of fighting with the English brigades, securing a publisher's advance of £50 and resulting in the Autumn 1937 publication of 'Boadilla'. Initial sales were poor which might go some way to explaining why first editions are rare in commerce. It served as a primary historical source for many leading scholars writing about the Spanish Civil War, including Paul Preston, Hugh Thomas and Anthony Beevor. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

1971, London, Macdonald, reprint, pp196, black and white maps, green cloth in dustwrapper. Dustwrapper grubby with some loss, book good.

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece photograph of the authors, some light foxing, pp. 310, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver and lightly sunned through the jacket, lean to spine, spots to edges, dustjacket with cancel flaps (as issued), design to front and backstrip panels by J.L. Carstairs, a little chipped and nicked at extremities with some light soiling and a few spots to rear panel, very good. An account of a firebrand adolescence, written whilst both authors were still in their teens, detailing their battle with the public school system - as represented in their case by Wellington College, 'where they became allies in a rebellion against the militaristic and conservative values' (ODNB). Experiencing an awakening to left-wing politics quite at odds with the upbringing and education, they set about a programme of activism that included inserting pacifist leaflets inside the hymn-books at the school's Armistice Day service, and launching a magazine with the same title as the present account - the furore provoked by which (the Daily Mail alerted its readers to the 'Red Menace in Public Schools') led to Esmond absconding, before a brief return to the education system at the co-educational Bedales, following which they launched their literary careers with this 'precocious and unexpectedly even-tempered' work (ODNB). Both brothers continued their communist activity by joining the International Brigades to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, with Esmond there marrying Jessica Mitford - a cause for further controversy. During the Second World War, Giles, working as a war correspondent in Scandinavia, was imprisoned at Colditz; Esmond, meanwhile, had also worked as a journalist, in the US, but returned to England and disappeared whilst on service as a navigator on a flight destined for a raid on Hamburg.

Printed wrappers, the first three issues stapled. Staples rusted, second issue slightly stained at head of upper wrapper, third and fourth issues foxed at edges, else a very good set. A magazine by and for schoolchildren, largely edited by two nephews of Winston Churchill, who were at Wellington College. The upper wrapper of the first issue announces itself as 'Against Reaction in the Public Schools', the second as the 'Public Schools' Journal against Fascism, Militarism and Reaction', and the last two as 'The Progressive Journal of the Public Schools'. Aside from politics, sex inevitably was a recurrent subject, with much reassurance about the normality of masturbation. Most of the contributions were published anonymously but amongst other notable contents are five early poems by Gavin Ewart. Both brothers would shortly fight in the International Brigades, in the Spanish Civil War, despite their mother persuading Churchill to use his influence to prevent her less hardy son, Giles, from seeing active service. In response, Giles deserted in order to receive the consequential punishment of being sent to the front. Esmond is perhaps best remembered for his 1937 marriage to Jessica Mitford, in the face of parental opposition on a grand scale, involving Sir Anthony Eden, then foreign secretary, and a British naval destroyer, but the eventual union was brief. Aged 23, Esmond died en route to an air raid on Hamburg, in November 1941. A thousand copies of the first issue of 'Out of Bounds' were printed, with 850 sold in twenty-three public schools, but the next issue had a print-run of three thousand copies. Nevertheless, 'Out of Bounds' is now a rare periodical, both commercially and institutionally, particularly in the form of a full set. According to LibraryHub, the BL has a set, and the Bodleian a copy of the second and third issues. Worldcat adds a set at Emory, and a copy of the first issue at the National Library of Australia.