Title : My Mind a Kingdom

Author : George Thomas

Foreword : Introduction by V. Sackville-West

Year of Publication : 1938 2nd impression

Publisher : Jonathan Cape, London

Number of pages : 294

Original Price : Unknown

Book format : Hardback

Exterior condition : Good with some wear on covers and spine where the cloth boards have worn through near the foot (see pictures)

Interior condition : Good with normal page browning and some foxing on cover pages and page external edges

Dustjacket : N/A

Storyline : Written in the form of a 1935 diary, the author describes with some humour and excitement a series of events occurring in the everyday life of an author and their family.

Special features : Signed by the author, George Thomas, who has neatly written this text - "the conditions of conquest are easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always and never turn back - R.L.S"" (Robert Louis Stephenson)

Bonus feature - unusual half page newspaper cutting from 1960 showing a picture of The Queen and the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on Ladies Day at Epsom. This is dated via the reference to Richard Todd in his new film Never Let Go with a young chap called Peter Sellers.

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