HAYES, Douglas. The War of '39. London: Macmillan. 1970. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by David Remfry. A near fine copy. The boards clean and bright, the backstrip just slightly faded. The binding tight and square. The textblock top edge spotted, but the contents otherwise fine. The dust jacket unclipped, clean, sharp and vibrant, just a trifle crimped.
The author’s third book in his sextet ‘History of a Selfish Man’ which begins with ‘My Father in his Dizzerbell’ and ends with ‘Quite a Good Address’. It follows, in picaresque fashion, the apparent life and times of Hayes, travailing the globe’s war zones and cinemas, jobbing as a failed actor, and here lining up for duty at the outbreak of war. If internet trivia is at all credible, Hayes spent some time globetrotting the world, living and indeed writing out of a suitcase, or briefcase, even, before settling in St. John’s Wood and, for a time, neighbouring Noel Coward and Marlon Brando. Uncommon.
HAYES, Douglas. The War of '39. London: Macmillan. 1970. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by David Remfry. A near fine copy. The boards clean and bright, the backstrip just slightly faded. The binding tight and square. The textblock top edge spotted, but the contents otherwise fine. The dust jacket unclipped, clean, sharp and vibrant, just a trifle crimped.
The author’s third book in his sextet ‘History of a Selfish Man’ which begins with ‘My Father in his Dizzerbell’ and ends with ‘Quite a Good Address’. It follows, in picaresque fashion, the apparent life and times of Hayes, travailing the globe’s war zones and cinemas, jobbing as a failed actor, and here lining up for duty at the outbreak of war. If internet trivia is at all credible, Hayes spent some time globetrotting the world, living and indeed writing out of a suitcase, or briefcase, even, before settling in St. John’s Wood and, for a time, neighbouring Noel Coward and Marlon Brando. Uncommon.
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