LAWFORD, Stephen. Youth Uncharted
LAWFORD, Stephen. Youth Uncharted. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson. 1935. 8vo. First edition, first printing. The author’s impressive memoir of his travels during the interwar years. Stephen Lawford Childs set off postwar to see more of the world and wound up becoming “a Scarlet Pimpernel to the refugees of the devastated nations of Central Europe”, fighting Bolsheviks and participating in epic adventures with the White Guard, working for the League of Nations via Istanbul, Buenos Aires and Belgrade, and meeting his future wife, Lara Chumakoff. He died, suspiciously perhaps, in a plane crash in 1943. A very good example, the black cloth and gilt lettering clean and bright, the binding tight with a reading lean. A few spots to the textblock, faint offsetting to the excellent map endpapers, else clean. The snakeskin design dust jacket unclipped and complete, with some small nicks and chips, rubbing to corners with a few instances of small loss. A presentable copy.
LAWFORD, Stephen. Youth Uncharted. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson. 1935. 8vo. First edition, first printing. The author’s impressive memoir of his travels during the interwar years. Stephen Lawford Childs set off postwar to see more of the world and wound up becoming “a Scarlet Pimpernel to the refugees of the devastated nations of Central Europe”, fighting Bolsheviks and participating in epic adventures with the White Guard, working for the League of Nations via Istanbul, Buenos Aires and Belgrade, and meeting his future wife, Lara Chumakoff. He died, suspiciously perhaps, in a plane crash in 1943. A very good example, the black cloth and gilt lettering clean and bright, the binding tight with a reading lean. A few spots to the textblock, faint offsetting to the excellent map endpapers, else clean. The snakeskin design dust jacket unclipped and complete, with some small nicks and chips, rubbing to corners with a few instances of small loss. A presentable copy.
LAWFORD, Stephen. Youth Uncharted. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson. 1935. 8vo. First edition, first printing. The author’s impressive memoir of his travels during the interwar years. Stephen Lawford Childs set off postwar to see more of the world and wound up becoming “a Scarlet Pimpernel to the refugees of the devastated nations of Central Europe”, fighting Bolsheviks and participating in epic adventures with the White Guard, working for the League of Nations via Istanbul, Buenos Aires and Belgrade, and meeting his future wife, Lara Chumakoff. He died, suspiciously perhaps, in a plane crash in 1943. A very good example, the black cloth and gilt lettering clean and bright, the binding tight with a reading lean. A few spots to the textblock, faint offsetting to the excellent map endpapers, else clean. The snakeskin design dust jacket unclipped and complete, with some small nicks and chips, rubbing to corners with a few instances of small loss. A presentable copy.