This memoir is of the childhood of Robert Bruce Lockhart in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland. From his birth in Anstruther in 1887 to his experiences as a public schoolboy in Edinburgh at the turn of the century, this account presents a portrait of a young boy before World War I. Lockhart's recollections are also a candid insight into the background of a man who went on to a career of great distinction in the Foreign Office, wrote a best-selling account of his adventures in Bolshevik Russia at the end of World War I, and ...
Read More
This memoir is of the childhood of Robert Bruce Lockhart in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland. From his birth in Anstruther in 1887 to his experiences as a public schoolboy in Edinburgh at the turn of the century, this account presents a portrait of a young boy before World War I. Lockhart's recollections are also a candid insight into the background of a man who went on to a career of great distinction in the Foreign Office, wrote a best-selling account of his adventures in Bolshevik Russia at the end of World War I, and became Director General of Political Warfare during World War II. Lockhart is the author of "Memoirs of a British Agent" and "Retreat from Glory".
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Used-Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) 2nd impression, 1947. Pages slightly yellowed; bookplate on front pastedown; corner of front board bumped; blue cloth a little worn at head & foot of spine; gilt on spine a little dull.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Used-Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket. Free end papers yellowed; page fore-edge foxed; binding tight; spine slightly bumped at head & foot; dust jacket worn, with browned & faded spine.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 850grams, ISBN:
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fair. Ex library copy. A hardback volume in Acceptable condition only, readable but not pretty. No dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good in Very Good but torn DJ. Blue boards with gilt letters. FIRST EDITION. There is a half inch tear at the base of the spine. Otherwise very good. There are maps for endpapers. DJ has six tears to one half inch. Previous owner's name on the second free page. 372 pages.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 372pp, index, endpaper maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Moderate foxing throughout. Tear at top of front jacket panel.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fair. 372, endpaper maps, index, some foxing, front flyleaf missing, boards and spine scuffed and edges worn, creases in rear board. The author was a journalist; this memoir discusses his boyhood in Scotland.
