GOOD CONDITION
This sale is for a
vintage edition entitled “The Spanish
Farm,” by R. H. Mottram, with a Preface by John Galsworthy and
a frontispiece portrait of the author.
It was published
by Penguin Books, of Harmondsworth, Middlesex, in 1941.
The Spanish
Farm was awarded the
Hawthornden Prize in 1924 and is a World War 1, fictional wartime autobiography
by Ralph Hale Mottram (1883-1971) on the British Army at War in France and
Belgium during the First World War.
Part fiction, part
chronicle, it is a very interesting book that never loses sight of Madeleine's
home, that solid old farmstead of French Flanders, named in the Spanish wars of
centuries ago, and still standing after the greatest war of all time.
This book was
complete in itself, but became the first part of the Spanish Farm trilogy. The other two parts of the trilogy were
entitled Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four! and
The Crime at Vanderlynden’s.
The contents
include:
·
Preface
by John Galsworthy
·
La
Patrie Est En Danger
·
“On
Les Aura”
·
La
Gallette
The book measures 7
inches x 4.25 inches and has 128 pages.
The book is in
good used but generally neat condition for a softback of its age, with a
previous owner’s name/signature and vintage bookshop stamp at the front and foxing
to and near the rear cover, with no other ink or pencil markings in the book
(old price sticker residue on the front cover).
The binding is good, save there is no blank rear endpaper, with no other
loose or missing pages.
A good reading
copy of this vintage edition.
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