Item #031817 MEN OF FORTY-EIGHT. Jack Lindsay.

MEN OF FORTY-EIGHT.

Pp. viii+448; boards lightly soiled; heavily price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, several tape-repairs to edges, small tear at foot of backstrip; some light foxing; Methuen, London, 1948. First edition. Arnold Checklist 71. *Long historical novel dealing with that year of many revolutions, 1848. This a Presentation copy, with inscription on upper free endpaper in Jack Lindsay's hand (unsigned) to Colin Huggett: 'I wrote this in the phony war period - the very harsh winter of 1939-40 ....I wanted to get something of the desperation of that period, when we had no idea what was going to happen.'. Item #031817

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