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London. Hollis & Carter. F. Hardcover. 1955. 21.5cm, first edition, x,181p., frontis portrait, gilt titles, red cloth, fine.

1955. 21.5cm, first edition, x,181p., frontis portrait, gilt titles, red cloth, fine.

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN:

Hollis & Carter,, [1955]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

First edition. x, 181 pp. Frontispiece - b/w portrait of Belloc. A personal memoir which is "an attempt to recapture Belloc as a man rather than as a writer". A record of thirty years' friendship. A little light browning on eps and a few spots of foxing on front edge. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge red. Overall condition VG. In VG- illustrated dust wrapper.

NY: Sheed & Ward. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [c1955]. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; x, 185 pages .

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN:

In this brief memoir will be found some account of a great man who was also the greatest writer of his day. I was honoured with his friendship for a period of thirty years. Of his life before I knew him I have written little, since that is a task for his biographers. Such references as I have made to the years preceding 1922 were necessary to the telling of my story and my information on those earlier years is drawn from his writings, from the autobiography of his sister, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, and from his conservations with me. One notable feature of the book is its 'toning down' (to say the least) of the popular legend of Belloc as the uproariously happy man, and incidentally, in so doing, it makes nonsense of much of the sillier criticism of him. It shows how the basis of his strong character was his religion, unpietistic but profoundly lived, the very principle of his intellectual life as it was also the source of his gaiety and fortitude - that fortitude which became more and more striking in his last years.morton. Some browning to end pages. Some wear and and to D/J. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.)

London: Hollis & Carter, 1955. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo.. hardback with dust jacket x + 180pp., ÔThis is in no sense a biography but a personal memoirÕ