Simpson edwin colin (2 résultats)
Edité par Angus & Roberts, Sydney 1955
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Vendeur : Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, Etats-UnisCharles Lewis Best Booksellers
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Hardcover. Etat : In quite good condition. No Dust Jacket. first Edition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed sylvan-green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 248. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . After a stint in advertising and journalism, E…dwin Colin Simpson,(19081983)published Adam in Ochre (1951), which sold 56,000 copies in the next twenty years, attracted international attention and popularised the realisation that Indigenous Australians were not dying out.His only novel, Come Away, Pearler, was released in 1952. He then focussed several books on New Guinea Aborigines, including Adam with Arrows (1953) Adam in Plumes (1954),and Islands of Men (1955). In 1963 Simpson became a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors and, after visiting Scandinavia, led the ASA campaign for Public Lending Right, publicising the issue by withholding The New Australia from libraries in 1971. Three years later PLR was achieved; his role was recognised with his appointment as OBE in 1981. Another cause he promoted was the humane treatment of animals.
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Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-UniThe Print Room
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression published later the same year. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, some slight yellowing to white parts of jacket, not price clipped (42s), small previous owner's stamp to i…llustrative ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 293pp, illustrated. An Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, one of five illegitimate sons of a British aristocrat who ran away with his daughters' governess T.E. Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916, vanished into the desert in 1917 and re emerged as one of the most remarkable and controversial figures of the First World War. He united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus, an adventure he recorded in the classic 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. A born leader, utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain and danger, he remained modest and retiring. Farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity and acclaimed writer, Lawrence was a visionary whose achievements transcended his time. Jacket by Edwin Taylor (illustrateur).
