BEFORE THE DELUGE: memories and reflections 1880-1914.
Pp. viii+232, 8 plates, index; demy 8vo; dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corner of upper board and top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised, a few small faded spots to spine; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges a trifle rubbed; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers, half-title and final index page offset, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; John Murray, London, 1961. First edition. *Memoirs of the Conservative politician. From 1911 to 1921, he was Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons, and he fought in World War I as a Major in the Suffolk Yeomanry. Item #178658
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