Look Upon this Man

First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping, creasing and short creased tears to top and bottom of colourful jacket and spine, some yellowing to back jacket, folds and corners rubbed, crease to rear endpaper, not price clipped (9/6d), previous owner's inscription and small old charity stamp to top ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 232pp. The fictionalised story of William Walker (1824-60). He was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary. In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of 'manifest destiny', Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing colonies. Such an enterprise was known at the time as 'filibustering'. Author Alfred Neumann (1895-1952), was a German Jewish / American writer of novels, stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as a translator into German. He moved to Los Angeles in 1941 from where he had, luckily for him, been working, after the Nazis stole all his property. A very scarce book with jacket.