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220.niColson, Harold. Diaries and letters 1930-1962. edited by nigel nicolson. Collins. 1966-68
£98
8vo. 3 vols.; original yellow cloth; illustrated with photographs; a fine set in dust-jackets.
First edition of all three volumes.
221. notaBle BritisH trials. trial of William Joyce. William Hodge and Company Ltd., 1946.
£78
8vo, original red boards, upper board stamped centrally with publisher’s device in blind, spine lettered in gilt; 8 black and white photographic plates; a good copy; provenance: Desmond g. Knight, Worcester college, oxford, 1947 (owner’s neat pen inscription on front free endpaper).
First edition. the trial of William Joyce, or lord haw-haw as he was christened by pseudonymous Daily express radio critic Jonah Barrington (a.k.a. cyril carr Dalmain), caused, and continues to cause, disquiet as Joyce was an american citizen whose crimes took place in germany. in order for his crimes to be considered treason he had to be counted in some manner as a British citizen or as being under the protection of the crown when his actions took place. this required the judge to advise the jury to dismiss two of the charges out of hand, which they did. conviction on the third relied on interpretation of the treason statutes and the British passport falsely applied for by Joyce before leaving for germany.
the summation of the judge left no doubt as to his belief that Joyce counted as a British citizen at the time of the broadcasts but it relied on technicalities, and required judgements to be made as to arcane points of law from the reign of Queen anne. not only this but the evidence that Joyce had been part of the broadcasts whilst still holding a British passport was not conclusive. the only dissenting voice from the the Bench was that of lord Porter at the appeal who believed the question of allegiance should have been left to the jury rather than the judge. the editor of the book is certainly in doubt as to the validity of the decision and questions not merely whether Joyce’s appeal should have been successful but whether he should have been convicted at all. he states in his introduction
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that the general feeling amongst people was that ‘an unmeritorious case has made bad law’. the book contains several appendices including extracts from broadcasts, a report on the effectiveness of the broadcasts and the reasons people listened and the judgement on the appeal.
‘one oF the Best Personal accounts oF an eVerest eXPeDition’
222. noyCe, Wilfrid. south col. one Man’s adventure on the ascent of everest, 1953 ... Foreword by sir John hunt. London: The Windmill Press for William Heinemann Ltd, 1954.
£75
8vo (213 x 136mm). original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruiled in gilt, lower board with publisher’s device in blind, dustwrapper with colour- printed illustration after a.J. Veilhan, retaining price, pictorial endpapers printed in ochre, top edges stained blue; pp. xx, 303, [1 (blank)]; one colour-printed frontispiece, 3 colour-printed plates, 24 monochrome plates with illustrations recto-and-verso, 16 full-page illustrations after Veilhan, and 5 full-page maps; dustwrapper lightly spotted and rubbed and chipped at edges, unobtrusive small marks on lower panel, some very light spotting on fore-edges, nonetheless a very good copy in the unclipped dustwrapper.
First edition. ‘a great climber, as well as a poet and scholar, [noyce] was chosen to make the leading ascent of the south col on the 1953 British everest expedition.his brilliant climb to the 26,000-foot saddle opened the way to the final assault on the summit of the peak [...] South Col was his best work, a personal narrative of his own impressions of the adventure and his impressions of others during this unique experience. it superbly complemented the official narrative, The Ascent of Everest’ (Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering). as neate judges, South Col is widely recognised as ‘one of the best personal accounts of an everest expedition’.
NLS, Mountaineering, s315; Neate N40; Perret 3224 (‘Un des grandes classiques de la littérature himalayenne’); Salkeld & Boyle N18 (‘A well- written personal account of first successful expedition’); Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering 40; Yakushi (3rd ed.) N172a.
223. orCZy, Baroness. the scarlet Pimpernel. Greening and Co.. 1905. £2,500
8vo., original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, with scarlet pimpernel flower decoration on upper board. spine very slightly sunned, endpapers at some stage skilfully replaced, very occasional light spotting, otherwise a very good bright crisp copy.
First edition. With a half-title excised from a later hodder and stoughton edition of The Scarlet Pimpernel tipped in with a manuscript note signed by Baroness orczy on it “to Mamme Molloy with all kind thoughts and best wishes yrs v. sincerely emmuska orczy. Monte carlo March 17th ‘30”.
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