An Essay on the Contemporary England : What England Really is by Belloc, Hilaire - 1937

London: Constable & Co.; (1937). First Edition . Hardcover. First UK edition, very good lacking a dust jacket. Brown cloth with paper labels on front board and spine. Slight (1/4") loss to cloth at the top of the spine, small tears in cloth at edges of spine. Small circular label at the top left corner of the front page. 80 pages.

London: Constable & co, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Good. ix, 79 pgs. 5 1/4 x 8 in. Brown paper boards with paper label on cover and spine. Condition of the book is GOOD ; stains top and bottom at spine on front and back, stain also on spine. label on spine faded to nothing, with a strip of clear tape over spine. Owner's name on title page, several pages have pencil marks or underlining, otherwise text is very clean.

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1937. Green cloth boards are rubbed on edges. Out of print. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Prior owner name on feb. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

Constable, 1937. ~Bookplate of J. E. Newman, T.O.S.F. to front endpage. Light foxing to page edges. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. 2nd impr. Hardback. Very Good+. ix, 79pp. No dustwrapper. Binding sound, text unmarked.

London, UK: Constable, 1937. 1st Edition 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 80pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, red titles on white label on front and spine. Corners and spine ends bumped. Light stains to boards. Previous owner's label on front paste down. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Belloc looks at England through the eyes of an outsider - and discusses in turn his belief that modern England is Aristocratic, Protestant and Commercial.

Constable,, [1937]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition; brown boards, upper board and backstrip qwith paper labels printed in red, boards mildly age-marked else a bright, clean copy. Cahill, 138.

London: Constable & Co, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth. ix, 80p. Edges of spine and cover show light signs of shelf wear. Some fading on back cover. Otherwise a clean and tight book in very good condition. Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870[1] - 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902, while retaining his French citizenship. <br /> This short work is Belloc's attempt to characterize modern England in terms of three great markers: aristocracy,… Read More

London: Constable, 1937. 1st edition / 1st printing. Nice copy. small octavo. original boards ix + 80pp., The Three Characteristics; The Stuff; England is an Aristocratic State; England is Protestant; England is Commercial; Conclusion. An analysis of the state of England (Britain) based on historical examples. Nice copy in brown boards with bright paper title labels on upper board & spine. PHOTO available

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1937. 80 pages, clean and clear. White endpapers. Previous owner's name on ffep, old reviews pasted onto back endpapers. Brown cloth cover with red titles. Corners bumped, darkened spine, light wear to head and tail of spine. VG+.

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1937. Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing in the U.S. 5 x 7.5in. xi. 91pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the slightest suggestion of shelf rubbing, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows several small spots of light discoloration, panels lightly shelf rubbed and toned, two very short nicks at the edges, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.