Description: "TRIMBLERIGG. A BOOK OF REVALATION." THIS NOVEL, BY A.E.HOUSMAN'S BROTHER LAWRENCE, IS A POLITICAL SATIRE, MAINLY AIMED AT DAVID LLOYD GEORGE WHO HAD RECENTLY CEASED TO BE PRIME MINISTER, HAVING SUCCESSFULLY STEERED UK THROUGH WORLD WAR ONE. HOUSMAN WAS A SUFFRAGIST WHO SET UP AN ARTISTS' SUFFRAGIST COLLECTIVE WITH HIS SISTER. MAYBE THAT IS WHY HE DIDN'T LIKE LLOYD GEORGE. HE WAS A PACIFIST & A SOCIALIST. Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London. He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman and his sister was writer/illustrator Clemence Housman. THE BINDING IS AN UNUSUAL BATIK DESIGN. THIS IS THE 2ND ISSUE, THE SAME YEAR AS THE FIRST., WHICH HAS A RATHER LESS ATTRACTIVE BATIK DESIGN. BLUE SPINE WITH A PERFECT SPINE LABEL. TISSUE-GUARDED FRONTISPIECE BY EDMONMD X. KAPP, AND A TISSUE-GUARDED PHOTO FACING PAGE 24. 320 PAGES. EDGES ARE ROUGH-CUT AS ISSUED. PAGE TOPS DYED BLUE-GREY. THE BOOK COMES WITH A PIECE OF EPHEMERA: AN ADVERTISING LEAFLET FOR 2 BOOKS BY HOLBROOK JACKSON. POSTAGE IN UK, £2.50. SECURE, RECYCLED PACKAGING. 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK. DOWNSIZING MY LIBRARY. MANY BOOKS TO COME. PLEASE LOOK AT MY OTHER LISTINGS, INCLUDING SEVERAL BOOKS ON MOUNTAINEERING, THE HIMALAYAS AND TIBET.
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Location: London, London
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Cloth
Place of Publication: LONDON
Publisher: CAPE
Modified Item: No
Year Printed: 1924
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: EDMOND X. KAPP
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Fiction Subject: POLITICAL SATIRE
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: UK
Author: LAWRENCE HOUSMAN
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
