Pilgrim Son: A Personal Odyssey de Masters, John

Hardback. Very Good.

John Masters Trilogy #3. Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. In this - the third and final volume - Masters describes a death and rebirth for himself and his family. By the late 1940s, his professional life - a fifth generation servant of the Crown in India who fought in the Middle East and Burma in World War Two - ended with freedom and separation of colonial India into two independent countries. So great was the division, that Masters left a military that did not want him in India to briefly serve with another military that had no use for him in England. The England he and his family were effectively forced to go to was itself in the process of transforming itself into a semi-socialist state; something with which Masters could not abide. Taking what funds he had, he came to America with the idea of setting up a business that involved… Leer más

Michael Joseph, 1971. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first impression hardback, 1971, with price-clipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - white dust jacket slightly rubbed and tanned to spine and edges (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature to front pastedown; light tanning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

First printing. Book has very light bumping to the top and bottom edges of the spine. Unclipped DJ has minor creasing to the edges. 'Pilgrim Son' is uniquely John Masters' own story: the autobiography of a man who through hard work and natural genius made himself into a household name. Masters was from the start determined to break through, and his admirers will be fascinated to read of the struggle that went into the creation of the author who wrote 'Nightrunners of Bengal', his first novel and the first of the great series set in British India.