Search Results: the oppidan by leslie shane

Chatto & Windus, 1922. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1922. Reprint. 365 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front paste down. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Minor scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

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London,, 1969. Reissue. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Very good with toned edges. Very good dust jacket with toned spine, very small spot to spine and slightly rubbed at edges.. 8vo. Pp: xiv, 365. 1969 reissue. Blue, black and white illustrated dust jacket. Mahogany buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine. Publisher's compliment's slip loosely inserted.ISBN: 701115572

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 8vo size black clothbound hardcover with decorative front cover with blue illustrations and blue titles on spine; 365 deckle edged pages Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet (1885-1971) was commonly known as, and wrote under the name of Shane Leslie. The Oppidan was his first book, and is a roman a clef novel about his own experiences at Eton College. Ex-church library book with typical treatments; lightly tanned pages; pencilled price on fep. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. First. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. An uncommon first edition novel about Eton by Shane Leslie, inscribed by the author to a fellow Etonian, Viscount Tredegar. The first edition of this uncommon work. Author's presentation copy, 'To my brother of Cape and Sword - Shane Leslie in the first year of the pontificate of the Holiness of Pius XI'. His poem 'Rose of England: Rosa Mystica' loosely inserted, noted 'love from' by Shane to the tail.Bookplate of Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar to the front paste down. Morgan went Eton, and was responsible for monitoring carrier pigeons in World War Two. However he let information slip and was court martialed, though not sent to jail. He was inspiration for Aldous Huxley and Ronald Firbank as characters in their novels.A striking roman a clef about life and contemporaries at Eton, based on the author's own experiences.Shane Leslie was a prominent diplomat and writer, and a first cousin of Winston Churchill. In the… Read More