Buy this book on-line BROOKE, JOCELYN: : THE PASSING OF A HEROLONDON.THE BODLEY HEAD LTD.,1953. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,3-colour (b/w+red) pictorial artwork by Leonard N. Breach, illustrated front of dw/dj with white lettering,a lightly grubbed rear panel with publisher's advert for author's other published titles; with some shelf-wear to edges and corners - some minimal creasing, all corner tips rubbed with some minimal chipping and losses to same and minimal chipping to head with small loss - lettering unaffected,front top gutter's fold with small triangular portion loss, front right-hand lower corner with triangular-shaped portion loss; two small closed tears towards rear top+lower corners,miniscule chipping at foot of spine/backstrip just lightly affecting publisher's device at foot of same,similar chipping with minimal losses to top front and rear edges of dw/dj but approx. 98% present - reads worse than is.Top edges toned with minimal,sporadic foxing/ spotting,fore-edges brighter but also with similar foxing/spotting contents bright, tight,fairly clean - some minor foxing within, commensurate with book's age, production creasing/wrinkles to some pages top edges at front and rear signatures - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped black ink letters to spine/backstrip,and clean plain white eps with ubiquitous but faint off-set shadowing from dw/dj's inner flaps. UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-156pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3+ postscript,plus [unpaginated] the following pages foxed: half-title+title pages,dedication,contents list/table and pp11 with dedication page onwards to pp11 with aforementioned production wrinkle at top edges,remaining other individual Pts and Postscript separator pages and foxed blank at rear.
Denzil Pryce-Foulger,the head boy of St. Ethelbert's,seemed to be marked out for success.Handsome,athletic,the son of wealthy parents,he appeared to be endowed with every natural advantage.To the younger,more sensitive boy who is the narrator of the story,he was already,at the age of fourteen,a hero.And yet even at that early stage there was a suspicion that he was not all that he seemed to be.
He and his youthful admirer meet again later at Oxford and in London.Facts come to light which cast doubt and then the shadow of discredit on the once glittering figure of the hero,until finally,after a spectacular wartime death,he sinks at once into utter obscurity.
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