All Souls and Appeasement: A Contribution to Contemporary History by Rowse, A.L - 1961

Macmillan: St. Martin's Press, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London : Macmillan, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 122p., ill. ; 21cm. Subjects: All Souls College (University of Oxford) -- Alumni and alumnae. Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- (1936-1945).

London: Macmillan a& Co., 1961. vii, [1], 121pp, [1]. With a photographic frontispiece and a further seven photographic plates. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed and cocked. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden loosely inserted. Presentation copy, ink inscription to recto of FFEP: 'With kindest wished from A L Rowse'. The first edition of historian Alfred Leslie Rowse's (1903- 1997) analysis of the social and psychological roots of Chamberlain's policy of appeasement, in particular the involvement of alumni of All Souls College, Oxford, of which Rowse was a fellow. Sir Anthony Eden (1897-1977), British foreign secretary (1935-38, 1940-45, and 1951-55) and Prime Minister (1955-1957). Following active service in the First World War, Eden read Oriental languages at Oxford. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1923. In 1935 he was appointed foreign secretary, a position he resigned in… Read More