1972, ISBN: 9780002114127

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Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications, 1960. 160 pp., pictorial wraps; Book shows covers wrapped a bit to far to the rear by manufacturer w/ spine looking rounded esp. at… Mehr…

Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications, 1960. 160 pp., pictorial wraps; Book shows covers wrapped a bit to far to the rear by manufacturer w/ spine looking rounded esp. at top; top front corner of book curls up a bit w/ a light brown stain to bottom corner of front cover; light creasing to corners of back cover; pages browning; binding is tight, cover bright w/ light stress lines along spine / The first novel in the Chester Drum, Private Detective series. Science fiction writer Milton Lesser eventually made the pseudonym of Stephen Marlowe his legal name. /. Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good to Very Good -. Illus. by Ernest Chiriaka (cover art)., Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications, 1960, History Book Club, 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jacket. Frontispiece and a few plates foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. 510 pp. Family Tree of George III illustrated on endpapers. "Bolt-eyed, addle-witted, the royal bully-boy of caricature and legend, George III, for sixty years King of Great Britain and Ireland and last king of America, has come down to us as a fumbling reactionary who only confirmed everyone's worst suspicions of his capacities (or lack of them) by finally going mad. Now, in this elegant, warmly sympathetic biography, Stanley Ayling gives us an unrefracted view of this maligned and complex man. It is a new portrait, both political and personal, that is long overdue. This book intertwines the threads of George's life in public and private, from childhood on . . . his over-mothered upbringing and his starry-eyed attachment to his tutor and favorite, Lord Bute, which landed him on the throne in 1760 "bigoted, young and chaste," as the great Walpole tartly remarked . . . his gradual learning of the art of kingship through all of the constitutional struggles of his reign and the (fascinating) unbridled political in-fighting that accompanied them . . . his complex relations with his ministers and the policies that led to the war with the American colonies . . . his unflinching refusal to make advantageous political and personal compromises that might undermine the Church of England . . . and his protection of his country's very existence in the face of the French Revolution and the armies of Napoleon. Here is the domestic George . . . his life as husband and father, with its private joys and all-too-public family schisms, especially the famous and bitter conflict with his son and heir . . . the shadows that darkened his later days, as the dread "royal malady" of porphyria prostrated him and finally destroyed his mind. Tenacious, courageous, uxorious, this idiosyncratic Hanoverian who was more passionately devoted to Britain than any other of his line emerges here as a man of kindness, dry wit, and essential goodness, an oddly captivating man, and a monarch of pivotal importance to his country's history. The biographer makes rich use of George's private papers and those of his family and ministers; he draws on the vast array of contemporary diaries and memoirs, on newspapers and journals, official parliamentary records and scurrilous broadsheet satires and cartoons. His book is an act of loving restitution, breaking through two centuries of libel to bring back the human and royal George, whom his own subjects ultimately held in deepest affection as "The Good Old King., History Book Club, 1972<

1972, ISBN: 9780002114127

History Book Club, 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jacket. Frontispiece and a few plates foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. 510 pp. Family Tree of George III illust… Mehr…

History Book Club, 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jacket. Frontispiece and a few plates foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. 510 pp. Family Tree of George III illustrated on endpapers. "Bolt-eyed, addle-witted, the royal bully-boy of caricature and legend, George III, for sixty years King of Great Britain and Ireland and last king of America, has come down to us as a fumbling reactionary who only confirmed everyone's worst suspicions of his capacities (or lack of them) by finally going mad. Now, in this elegant, warmly sympathetic biography, Stanley Ayling gives us an unrefracted view of this maligned and complex man. It is a new portrait, both political and personal, that is long overdue. This book intertwines the threads of George's life in public and private, from childhood on . . . his over-mothered upbringing and his starry-eyed attachment to his tutor and favorite, Lord Bute, which landed him on the throne in 1760 "bigoted, young and chaste," as the great Walpole tartly remarked . . . his gradual learning of the art of kingship through all of the constitutional struggles of his reign and the (fascinating) unbridled political in-fighting that accompanied them . . . his complex relations with his ministers and the policies that led to the war with the American colonies . . . his unflinching refusal to make advantageous political and personal compromises that might undermine the Church of England . . . and his protection of his country's very existence in the face of the French Revolution and the armies of Napoleon. Here is the domestic George . . . his life as husband and father, with its private joys and all-too-public family schisms, especially the famous and bitter conflict with his son and heir . . . the shadows that darkened his later days, as the dread "royal malady" of porphyria prostrated him and finally destroyed his mind. Tenacious, courageous, uxorious, this idiosyncratic Hanoverian who was more passionately devoted to Britain than any other of his line emerges here as a man of kindness, dry wit, and essential goodness, an oddly captivating man, and a monarch of pivotal importance to his country's history. The biographer makes rich use of George's private papers and those of his family and ministers; he draws on the vast array of contemporary diaries and memoirs, on newspapers and journals, official parliamentary records and scurrilous broadsheet satires and cartoons. His book is an act of loving restitution, breaking through two centuries of libel to bring back the human and royal George, whom his own subjects ultimately held in deepest affection as "The Good Old King., History Book Club, 1972<

1972, ISBN: 9780002114127

London: Collins, 1972. Gilt title on brown cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with a hint of wear to spine tail and lower corner tips. Internally there is a small name to fron… Mehr…

London: Collins, 1972. Gilt title on brown cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with a hint of wear to spine tail and lower corner tips. Internally there is a small name to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is price clipped. 510 pages, 29 illustrations and genealogical chart endpapers. Since the demolition work of Sir Lewis Namier and his followers biographers have fought shy of this tempting yet dangerously complex subject, and a new study of King George III was badly overdue. This most accomplished biography by Stanley Ayling of a richly human and critically important subject, written with wit, humour, a style of distinction, a sceptical yet never cynical intelligence and warm sympathy, based upon a lifetime's study. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 15. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Collins, 1972<