The Fire Was Bright by Leslie Kark - 1943

Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1943. Hardcover. Good. 1943. No Edition Remarks. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

GB: Macmillan, 1943. Inscription of owner at start of book. In very good, clean, tight condition BUT text edges a bit dust marked / spotted and corners and spine ends bumped. Spine ends faded/marked. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is dust marked with tears and loss to spine.. 1st Edition. Hardback. G++/Good DW.

GB: Macmillan, 1943. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT writing on endpapers and base of spine slighgtkly spotted. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW.

Macmillan, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Mainly a reading copy.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1943. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are rubbed and marked.Previous ownership inscription.Foxing.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

MacMillan, 1943. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Very Good. Shelf wear to jacket.. GENERAL MILITARY R.A.F. World War IIR.A.F. stories ""The Fire Was Bright (Macmillan Co.) should go down as among the best of the war.The author, at 32, is a veteran of Fleet Street, the Ministry of Information and Bomber Command, a graduate of both Oxford and the Bar of the Inner Temple. Don Carlson's review follows: To a reviewer, a book like this, unheralded and not hailed as a classic, comes as a breath of fresh air in the often stale draught of war yarns hitting the market The skill of Kark's literary artistry, and it is no cliche to call it that, will make you laugh at the young RAF bomber men and their glorious disregard for tradition; and will knot your throat with its touches of tender tragedy. A local touch is the story of the Englishman, Theodore James Rowlinson, who worked on a farm near Sumas Prairie, and went to Chilliwack where he met his first girl. Later, he returned to England before the war and joined… Read More