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Macmillan,, 1945. 8vo., First Edition; burgundy cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, clean copy.

London: Macmillan, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Octavo hardback. viii, 334 pp. Cloth slightly rubbed, Very Good condition in Good dust jacket (jacket is slightly chipped, has one inch loss of material at top, also a few small closed tears).

London: Macmillan, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. First edition , first edition Octavo hardback. viii, 334 pp. Cloth slightly rubbed, Good+ condition. condition in Good+ dust jacket (jacket is slightly chipped, has a tiny loss of material at top and bottom of spine, also a few small closed tears).

London England: Macmillan & Co. Very Good/No Jacket. 1945. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. Account Rendered. A Novel. Slight foxing to edge. Slightly bumped corners. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 334 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1945. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 334. Maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, pushing to heel of spine. Else, clean and tidy, especially given the poor post-war paper stock. In the original dust jacket with its apt melodramatic cover vignette (and double cleff-cum-noose spine design): ragged, losses to spines end, corners and bottom of front panel, numerous closed tears with amateur tape-repairs to reverse. Very good/ good-only. A robust copy of Brittain's penultimate novel. A pacifist novel with a biographical (rather than autobiographical) foundation, in Testament of Experience, Brittain recalled its genesis: "In the autumn of 1939, I was summoned to a murder trial as a potential witness for the defense. The prisoner, a sensitive and intelligent professional man, had caused his wife's death and then attempted suicide, but afterwards claimed that he could remember nothing of the tragedy. A team of psychological specialists traced… Read More