Author: John Benn
Title: I Say Rejoice: A Memoir of Christopher Benn
Description: London, Faber and Faber, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce memoir of British soldier Christopher Benn, written by his brother. Signed by the author to W. A. Foyle. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front endpaper to William Alfred Westropp Foyle, a British bookseller and businessman who co-founded Foyles bookshop in 1903. As one of the leading London booksellers of the twentieth century, when the brothers opened their first bookshop the business grew so rapidly that by the 1920s they held a stock of four million volumes. With a portrait frontispiece. The life of Christopher Benn, a British soldier and lawyer as written by his brother, John Benn. This work contains details of Christopher's education and time spent in Germany, his degree at Cambridge, love of music, passing the Bar exam, heading to war at the beginning of the Second World War, his letters home, and his death after his plane was shot down. From the library of Christopher Foyle, a British philanthropist and the chairman of the famous Foyle's Bookshop in London. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor bumping. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

Keywords: Say Rejioce Benn Christopher Rejioce None


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