The Goose Cathedral (Sequel to A Mine of Serpents and The Military Orchid) by Brooke, Jocelyn - 1950

London: The Bodley Head, 1950. 186 pp. The author has also written: The Scapegoat, The Image of a Drawn Sword, The Military Orchid, A Mine of Serpents. A blend of truth and fiction, in part autobiographical. Ex-library has jacket removed. No spine label. Green cloth on boards binding has slight bumps to corners and top and bottom of spine. No library stamps or discard stamps on front endpapers. Only stamps are date due stamps on back free endpapers. Pulls to endpapers where dj had been taped but removed very neatly. No adhesive left to discolour. Text is clean and secure. One 3/4" tear to top of page 13 near spine. Overall cond: fair-good.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7 1/2 x 5 1/8. Ex-Library.

Bodley Head, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1950. First Edition. 186 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with black lettering over green cloth. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Minor foxing and soiling to DJ.

London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Julian Trevelyan. 8vo, coloured illustrated dust jacket by Julian Trevelyan over green boards with gilt titles on spine. Some chipping / tears to edges of price clipped dust jacket. 186pp. Part 3 of the Orchid Trilogy. Part fiction and part autobiography, these reminiscences ‘cover loosely linked periods in the author’s childhood and later life…. here the theme is woven about the startling pseudo - Gothic lifeboat station at Folkestone, which, with its grotesque gaggle of geese, became known as the The Goose Cathedral.’ Originally from the library at a Royal Air Force station with a single stamp on the blind title page & with a personal pictorial bookplate on the front endpaper.

London:: The Bodley Head,, [1950].. First edition.. publisher's green cloth in dust jacket.. Very slight foxing to the endsheets; otherwise a fine copy in an attractive jacket with a slightly sunned spine.. 12mo,.

London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition, good hard cover, with plastic coated, unclipped dust jacket. Shelf and handling wear noted, including heavy tanning and blemishes to DJ. Foxing to paste downs, end papers and page block. Pages are well bound, content unmarked. CN. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Used.

London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. An uncommon and excellent first edition of this fascinating book, partly fictional and partly autobiographical, by Jocelyn Brooke. The first edition of this work, an uncommon copy.A fascinating volume, neither entirely fictional nor entirely autobiographical, by Jocelyn Brooke. The third novel in a trilogy of autobiographical reminiscences, linking periods in the author's childhood and later life in a fictional and factual form. In a fine, clear prose with a poetical intensity that makes this book unforgettable. With the unclipped dustwrapper.  In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally lovely with only minor shelfwear. The dustwraper is unclipped and very smart, with slight shelfwear and chipping, and a slight sunning to the spine. A minor faint scattered spotting internally to the wraps, not affecting the externals. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine

The Bodley Head, London., 1950. First edition. Octavo. 187 pages. The third volume in the celebrated Orchid Trilogy. On the front pastedown is an etched armorial bookplate (Peter Stevinson Watson). Edges and endpapers very slightly spotted, otherwise fine in very good dustwrapper, designed by Julian Trevelyan, which is slightly spotted with a few small nicks.

London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart first edition of this semi autobiographical novel from author and naturalist Jocelyn Brooke. The first edition of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.This is an unusual volume, sometimes termed a work of biographical non-fiction, from Jocelyn Brooke. It marks the third work in Brooks' 'Orchid Trilogy', a series of semi-autobiographical works blending his childhood idyll with the shadow of his time in the Second World War.A single page advertisement for Brooks' further works appears to the rear of the volume.A previous owner of this work was Norman Arthur Routledge, a British mathematician and Schoolteacher. His bookplate appears to the front pastedown, alongside an inscription to the front free endpaper: 'N. A. Routledge, Edinburgh, August 1955'. Routledge was a close friend of fellow mathematician Alan Turing, and they exchanged frequent correspondences. Turing wrote… Read More