hinde pseud (2 résultats)

4to. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. [x] + 118 pp. Illustrated with 12 colour plates and black and white photographs, drawings and engravings in text, including endpapers, half-title and title page. Bound in original green cloth, gilt with coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Small dents on lower board edges and ink inscription on half-title. Otherwise a fine copy. 'Imps of Promise, a phrase to describe young scholars used by John Boys (1571-1625), King's Scholar and Dean of Canterbury.' This recent history of The King's School is much more lavishly illustrated than its predecessors. The author writing under the pseudonym, Thomas Hinde, is Sir Thomas Wiles Chitty, 3rd Bart. (b.1926), who was educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford. His early novel, Happy as Larry (1958) associated him with the Angry Young Men movement. Since the late 70s, he has concentrated on non-fiction, including books on cottage homes, gardens, court life, forests and other school histories. James and James have published a number of histories of well known schools. KENT CANTERBURY KENT EDUCATION HISTORY- KENT.

First edition; 8vo; publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a very good copy with uncut pictorial dust-jacket, lettering on spine lightly faded, dust-jacket browned on spine panel, light rubbing to corners especially on upper spine panel, offsetting on jacket verso and light stains on back panel; 271pp. A charming first edition with original dust-jacket of Thomas Hinde's debut novel. Published a year after his marriage to the fellow novelist, Susan Hopkinson (herself daughter of the novelist, Antonia White), this novel was well received and prompted its author's career as a fiction and then a non-fiction writer. The London Review of Books called Mr. Nicholas 'exquisitely glum and fearingly funny'. Hinde's second novel, Happy As Larry, retained this disaffected humorous tone, and was excerpted in the popular paperback anthology, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men, placing its author in the circles of counter culture and mid-century intellectual history.