Fairlie Michael (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Cyril Connolly "Shade Those Laurels" / Roy Jenkins - Henry Fairlie "A Genius For Compromise?" / Randolph S Churchill "The Daily Newspaper" / Michael Hamburger "Heinrich Heine" / Bertrand de Jouvenal "What is 'Communist' Economics?".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. x, 246pp, with central section of half tone plate illustrations. In green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth a tad pushed at spine ends, very slightly worn. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original glossy dust wrapper, lightly bumped on extreme edges and very slightly shelf worn. Michael Fairlie recounts his time as an army office during the second world war, taken prisoner at the Battle of Crete and afterwards serving as a translator in a prisoner of war camp; and his post war experiences as a colonial adminstrator in Africa, mostly Botswana and Swaziland, where he met many of the key players during a turbulent and politically shifting time.

Royal 8vo, first edition, pp,ix,246, illustrated, gilt titled green cloth, pictorial unclipped dust-jacket, a very bright copy signed, dated and inscribed by the author to the leading free endpaper. An account of Fairlie's experiences spanning almost thirty years, beginning as a second-lieutenant in The black Watch in Perth, Scotland, and ending as a member of the Swaziland Executive and Legislative Councils.