Author: Usborne, Richard, Title: CLUBLAND HEROES - A nostalgic study of some recurrent characters in the romantic fiction of Dornford Yates, John Buchan and Sapper.
Description: Barrie and Jenkins, London, 1974, revised edition, [vi], 186pp, dark blue coth lettered in gilt at spine, revising and updating the edition first published in 1953, especially with regard to Dornford Yates (Major William Mercer) who was still living at the time of the first edition, an affectionate evocation of a time created by Yates, Buchan and Sapper, where Britain ruled enormous areas of the world and leisured London clubmen played the peacetime game of war against cads, crooks and beastly foreigners, lightly rubbed at tips, long ink inscr. on front free endpaper, no dustwrapper, very good plus,
Keywords: literary criticism yates mercer sapper mcneile buchan
Price: GBP 22.00 = appr. US$ 31.42 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 36312
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