raid detrimental being true history de desart earl (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original navy-blue cloth, lettered and decorated in white and gilt. Faintly marked on board edges, paper lightly tanned on page edges, endpapers browned, otherwise very good. A lost world in the Atlantic has been transformed into a perfect society. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. First edition. Variant with front board lettered in white and spine imprint reading "Pearson", priority unknown. Blue cloth stamped in white and gilt. Tiny gift inscription and small bookseller's stamp, corners a bit bumped, else near fine. Utopian fantasy and satire. A nice copy.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. None Ilustrador. First edition. A smart first edition of this utopian novel from the Earl of Desart. First edition. A fantasy utopian novel set abord the good ship the Detrimental, featuring the discovery of a lost race. Written by William Ulick O'Connor Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart, an English author who wrote fifteen novels, the most successful of which were his mystery thrillers. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Hinges just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with age toning to the extremities and endpapers. The odd small handling mark with a small closed tear to page 107/108 from the paper being cut. Very Good. book.

Condición: very good. London, Pearson 1897. Octavo publisher's decorated cloth blocked in gilt and white. A hint of browning; quite good. Only edition of this lively high society/South Seas/feminist/lost race fantasia which sees a clutch of England's finest damsels kidnapped by well bred wastrels and yachted away to a South Sea island. Soon they come across the less necessary half of a race, seemingly of Mediterranean origin, whose women leave all men between childhood and dotage on another island and visit once a year. Our aristocratic bandits discover that being British and useless is useless when young women can have their choice of good looking capable men. It's only short step to a polygamous queendom.This seems to result in a mulitude of children. I suspect that Desart didn't think through the mechanics of woman run polygamy but perhaps I misjudge him. Without the usual British infant mortality rate there might not be an impossible number of kids. This was, I think, Desart's last novel. I couldn't find much in the way of reviews but I am pleased to report that the Launceston Examiner thought it "a medley of puerilities." With a tough editor Desart might be still read today. He could write fluently and entertainingly but he did get side tracked easily, sometimes forgetting what novel he was writing. His Lord and Lady Piccadilly was racing into the last bend before the home straight when he abruptly introduced a horde of new characters and turned a tragedy into a social satire for a couple of hundred pages. And he is prone to letting his cynical authorial asides overwhelm a page.