MELTON MOWBRAY, AND OTHER MEMORIES. by Frewen, Moreton - 1924

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924.. 1st edition. Autobiography of the Anglo Irish writer Moreton Frewen. Pp.xii/311, portrait frontispiece + 15 further black & white plates, dampstain to margin of p.98 and top margin of facing plate. Grey cloth, bleaching to top front andrear corners. Scarce. G+.** "Frewen was a charming if financially incompetent adventurer from an English landed gentry family known for reckless financial and political schemes. He ran through two family fortunes before being granted a remittance and "encouraged" by family to emigrate to America....He emigrated to Wyoming during the cattle boom in the 1870s and 1880s. He married an American heiress and they settled together on a huge Wyoming ranch, The Prince of Wales Ranch, where Frewen built an enormous log lodge/castle later destroyed by fire and ran up ever increasing debt, earning the sobriquets "Mortal Ruin" and "the splendid pauper".. Returning to the United Kingdom, where he owned homes in London and Cork, Frewen served as Vice… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in publisher's green cloth with black title lettering to spine and upper cover.No Dust-Jacket.This is a nice bright copy with vivid black titles to spine and upper cover.No dust-jacket.Slight signs of spotting to spine of the book.Illustrated with some 16 wonderful b&w plates.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.The book does have some foxing to the fore-edge.An attractive copy of this uncommon book on this historic Sussex town and the Author's further exploits.First Edition 8vo (viii) 311pp First Edition [1924] . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1924.

(London: Herbert Jenkins Limited: 1924) Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 311. Illustrated. Index. An ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Tiny split to head of spine; top edge a little foxed; a loosely included newspaper cutting of an obituary of the author has slightly tanned the verso of front free endpaper, but altogether a crisp, bright and firm copy.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gray cloth. Corners slightly bumped, foxing to block edge; occasional foxing to pages. Sound and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .