VERY GOOD
CONDITION
This sale is for a
vintage hardback FIRST EDITION entitled “The
Years of Promise,” subtitled “The Second Book of an Autobiography
1908-1919,” by Cecil Roberts, with 19
illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the Author, aged 18, by
Helen Stiebel.
It was published
by Hodder and Stoughton, of London, and is the 1968 FIRST EDITION (stated).
Cecil Roberts (1892-1976) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist. During the First World War he was Literary Editor
to the Liverpool Post and also worked as a special correspondent to the Royal
Navy, Royal Flying Corps and the Arm.
In 1920 he became Editor of the Nottingham Journal, Nottingham being
the city in which he was born and raised. Aged 28 at the time, he was the
youngest editor of a morning newspaper in Britain. Five years later, the income
he made from his novels and other books allowed him to retire from journalism
in 1925 and concentrate on writing novels, poetry and travel books.
From the 1930s to the early 1950s he lived at Pilgrim
Cottage, Lower Assendon, near Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire. From there he wrote the novels ‘Pilgrim
Cottage’ (1933), ‘The Guests Arrive’ (1934) and ‘Volcano’ (1935) that were
published in an Pilgrim Cottage Omnibus edition in 1938. He also described his
walks from the cottage in the South Oxfordshire area in three books: ‘Gone
Rustic’ (1934), ‘Gone Rambling’ (1835) and ‘Gone Afield’ (1935).
During the Second World War, Roberts worked for Lord
Halifax, the UK Ambassador to the United States.
Overall, this prolific author produced some 60 books.
The book measures 9
inches x 6 inches x 1.25 inches and has 286 pages + illustrations.
The book is in
good, bright, clean and neat condition for its age, with erar and tears to the
edges of the otherwise similarly very good original dust-jacket (price-clipped).
There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in
the book. The binding is good with no
loose or missing pages.
A wonderfully
illustrated vintage FIRST EDITION.
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