BARTLETT, Vernon. This Is My Life
BARTLETT, Vernon. This Is My Life. London: Chatto & Windus. 1937. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy, externally clean and bright, the topstain vivid. The binding tight and gently rolled, the front endpaper torn at corner from adjacent ‘Christmas Greetings’ sticker affixed to front flap over original price. Some light spots and gift inscription here, the contents otherwise fine. The dust jacket with small loss to spine foot, tiny chips and nicks to other corners and spine head, rubbing to joints, some spots, but a handsome and rather unusual jacket depicting the many foreign forms the journalist must have had to complete.
Vernon Bartlett’s first autobiography—he wrote a second some forty years later—, a self-described ‘tour through Europe to study the habits of dictators’. Invalided in the First World War, Bartlett became war correspondent for Reuters, the Daily Mail, and the News Chronicle, interviewing Hitler and Mussolini. He also spent time in Spain during the Civil War, all of which formulated his left-leaning future in politics; his vehement anti-Hitler campaign which saw him enter Parliament, and his overall condemnation of all war everywhere.
BARTLETT, Vernon. This Is My Life. London: Chatto & Windus. 1937. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy, externally clean and bright, the topstain vivid. The binding tight and gently rolled, the front endpaper torn at corner from adjacent ‘Christmas Greetings’ sticker affixed to front flap over original price. Some light spots and gift inscription here, the contents otherwise fine. The dust jacket with small loss to spine foot, tiny chips and nicks to other corners and spine head, rubbing to joints, some spots, but a handsome and rather unusual jacket depicting the many foreign forms the journalist must have had to complete.
Vernon Bartlett’s first autobiography—he wrote a second some forty years later—, a self-described ‘tour through Europe to study the habits of dictators’. Invalided in the First World War, Bartlett became war correspondent for Reuters, the Daily Mail, and the News Chronicle, interviewing Hitler and Mussolini. He also spent time in Spain during the Civil War, all of which formulated his left-leaning future in politics; his vehement anti-Hitler campaign which saw him enter Parliament, and his overall condemnation of all war everywhere.
BARTLETT, Vernon. This Is My Life. London: Chatto & Windus. 1937. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy, externally clean and bright, the topstain vivid. The binding tight and gently rolled, the front endpaper torn at corner from adjacent ‘Christmas Greetings’ sticker affixed to front flap over original price. Some light spots and gift inscription here, the contents otherwise fine. The dust jacket with small loss to spine foot, tiny chips and nicks to other corners and spine head, rubbing to joints, some spots, but a handsome and rather unusual jacket depicting the many foreign forms the journalist must have had to complete.
Vernon Bartlett’s first autobiography—he wrote a second some forty years later—, a self-described ‘tour through Europe to study the habits of dictators’. Invalided in the First World War, Bartlett became war correspondent for Reuters, the Daily Mail, and the News Chronicle, interviewing Hitler and Mussolini. He also spent time in Spain during the Civil War, all of which formulated his left-leaning future in politics; his vehement anti-Hitler campaign which saw him enter Parliament, and his overall condemnation of all war everywhere.