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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazing Book Company [50506418], Liphook, United Kingdom.
A KIND OF SURVIVOR A Memoir by Guy Chapman Edited by Storm Jameson. Victor Gollancz, London 1975 First Edition ISBN 0575019514 288pp Hardback This copy is in fine unmarked condition in a fine unclipped dust wrapper that is a trifle sunned to the spine. Guy Chapman, the son of a wealthy barrister, G. W. Chapman, was born in London in on 11th September 1889. He was educated at Westminster School, Christ Church College (1908-11) and the London School of Economics before becoming a lawyer 1914. On the outbreak of the First World War, Chapman joined the Royal Fusiliers as a junior officer. He later wrote: "I was loath to go. I had no romantic illusions. I was not eager, or even resigned to self-sacrifice, and my heart gave back no answering throb to thought of England. In fact, I was very much afraid; and again, afraid of being afraid, anxious lest I show it." Chapman was not impressed by the quality of his training: "The ten months' training, which the battalion went through before it reached France, was therefore a compound of enthusiasm and empiricism on the part of the junior subalterns and the other ranks. We listened hopefully to the lectures of general officers who seemed happier talking of Jubulpore than of Ypres. We pondered the jargon of experts, each convinced that his peculiar weapon, machine-gun, rifle, bayonet, or bomb, was the one designed to bring the war to a satisfactory conclusion." After surviving the Battle of Arras in 1917, Chapman was badly affected by a mustard-gas attack. "The Boche dropped half a dozen mustard-gas shells round headquarters. I had heard them, but since I had smelt nothing had neglected to put on my gas-mask. Now my eyes had begun to run, and as soon as I opened them fountains of water gushed down my cheeks. Doctor Toulson washed them and washed them. It was no use. The flood continued." After treatment he returned to the Western Front and was still there when the Armistice was signed in 1918. Chapman was demobilised in February 1920, with the rank of major. After divorcing his wife he got a job as manager for a new London branch of an Irish publishing firm, Chapman and Dodd, in Denmark Street, Soho. In January 1924 the writer, Storm Jameson, came to the office. Chapman later commented: "She was wearing a heavy coat over a faded pink knitted dress, and a hat which did not suit her, and she smiled at me. She was rather lovely, with long cool grubby fingers, and she held herself badly: she made me think of a well-bred foal, unbroken and enchantingly awkward. Something she said at that first meeting, I forget what, made me laugh with pure pleasure." Ref AA5 Size: 288pp.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Blue Gum Books (Australia).
UK: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1975 Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288pp, all pages perfectly tight bright and clean bar neat po name and 4 sticky tape stains to EPs , in good intact dj with small tear/cut 25mm to bottom front corner, otherwise v good with slightly sunned spine..

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Scarlet Pimpernel.
London: Gollancz, 1975 green cloth, illus dj, rubbed with the usual lib marks, 288pp, b/w photos. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Back. Good/Good. 150x230mm.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Old Authors Bookshop.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288pp; frontis of Chapman. An excellent copy, dj now protected in Mylar wrap..

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, World of Books Ltd.
Hardback. Acceptable.