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First edition, first printing. Author's own copy. Publisher's original blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Centaur Press blind-stamp to the half title page. Contemporary press reviews of the work affixed to the front pastedown and front free endpaper. Original publisher's advertising pamphlet for the work loosely laid in, along with other related cuttings. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a few minor marks to the boards. The contents with scattered foxing to the edges of the textblock are otherwise in very good order. Complete with two identical original dustwrappers, both in very good condition with some marking to the spine panel of one and a little toning and shelf wear to the extremities of both. Not price-clipped (£1.50 net to the front flap). A manifesto for a more positive, active mode of resistance to "our chief social ills" ("a narrowly specialist educational programme designed to produce industrial automata; a consumer society brainwashed by mass media into valuing goods and machines over those who produce them; the perpetuation of a cult of violence and indifference to suffering that degrades and brutalises") by the author, publisher, Quaker, and campaigner for pacifism, vegetarianism and animal rights, Jon Wynne-Tyson (1924-2020). Provenance: from the library of Jon Wynne-Tyson. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Seller Inventory # 21474
Title: THE CIVILISED ALTERNATIVE: A Pattern for ...
Publisher: Fontwell, Sussex: Centaur Press Ltd.
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: R.W. Forder, Gosport, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original cloth gilt. Seller Inventory # 007168
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Salopian Books, Shrewsbury, SAL, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hard cover book in good+ condition with dust jacket also in good+ condition. Shelfwear to edges of jacket. Spotting to head of text block. Pages tanned throughout. 8vo. 224pp. Seller Inventory # 23600
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Siop y Morfa BA, Y RHYL, United Kingdom
224pp. VG++/VG. Seller Inventory # 7853
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrapper is price clipped, rubbed and lightly marked, boards marked, pencil markings to some margins. Otherwise clean throughout. Good. Book. Seller Inventory # 005785
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, boards. First edition. A manifesto for a cluster of progressive causes. Wynne-Tyson is known among fantasy cognoscenti as the third King of Redonda, the little rock in the Caribbean whose first self-proclaimed monarch was M. P. Shiel (H. M. Felipe I), a major figure in late 19th and early 20th century supernatural and science fiction. Shiel passed the crown on to author and editor Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, better known as John Gawsworth (H. M. Juan I), who in turn passed it on to Wynne-Tyson (H. M. Juan II). Wynne-Tyson, whose mother Esmé was also a writer, wrote both fiction and non-fiction and founded the Centaur Press in 1954. Inscribed to John Squires, noted Shiel scholar. A very good copy with scattered mildew to boards in fine price-clipped dust jacket. (#142680). Seller Inventory # 142680
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