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LIVINGSTONE**, THOMAS - Edited by Ronnie Scott: : TOMMY'S WAR - A FIRST WORLD WAR DIARY. ** [Foreword by Andrew Marr.]

LONDON.HarperPress/an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,2008.

ISBN 9780007280674.

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.] FINE+/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by subject (Thomas Cairns Livingstone) illustrated dw/dj,with glossy superimposed,dark brown lettered part-title,the remainder in capitalised,flat printed,red lettered sub-title, capitalised,brown lettered author/subject name and other brown lettering for 'Foreword by Andrew Marr' to front panel; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+title as front and publisher's black lettered+pictorial illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with a brown lettered diary extract and an adhesive,foil security tag to lower corner. Negliglble shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - miniscule corner tips' rubbing - but no other nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,soild and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black lettered spine/ backstrip,a red+orange striped headband,and immaculate plain dark brown endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xxixpp+2-382pp [paginated] includes an Introduction of About the Diaries by Shaun Sewell,a Foreword by Andrew Marr,People and Places (in the Daries),2 double-page brown+ black maps of Glasgow North and Glasgow South respectively,Diary entries for consecutive years 1913-1918,each and all with colour illustrations drawn by the diarist and accompanying relevant contemporary thumbnail sepia+b/w photographs related to events and places mentioned,pencilled Diary entries for 1933 and 1950,subject's contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs and colour photograph of collection of the diaries and picture credits with a request for any further information in relation to the diaries people+events within,to its reverse and as last pages. Plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication with blank verso,and a Contents list/table. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 15-year-old age.It is only the minimal,minor exterior fault that prevents a slightly higher grading for the dw/dj.Despite that,it really is an exceptional and exemplary copy for its cleanliness and brightness. The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s. Thomas Cairns Livingstone, a mercantile book keeper, began his diaries in 1913, when he, his wife Agnes and their son 'wee Tommy' set up house in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. For the next twenty years, Livingstone dutifully recorded each day's events in his Collins diaries,from small domestic dramas to troop movements as news of the Great War filtered back to the anxious home front.Rescued during a house clearance,the intricate details of these journals - interspersed throughout with Livingstone's wonderfully warm and idiosyncratic illustrations - provide a priceless record of the impression world events were making on the ordinary people at home and an extraordinary chronicle of the ups and downs of working-class life in the period immediately before, during and after the First World War. Unique and utterly compelling. 'Tommy's War' is beautifully written,touching and difficult to put down. Shaun Sewell is an avid antiques dealer who spotted Thomas Cairns Livingstone's diaries in a shoebox at an auction.Captivated by the author's wit,the vivid picture he gives of daily life during the First World War,and his skilled illustrations,Shaun bought the diaries and later showed them on the BBC's 'The Antiques Roadshow'. Please contact seller,because of the heavier weight of this item - 1.150Kg unpackaged,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

LIVINGSTONE**, THOMAS - Edited by Ronnie Scott: : TOMMY'S WAR - A FIRST WORLD WAR DIARY. ** [Foreword by Andrew Marr.]

LONDON.HarperPress/an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,2008.

ISBN 9780007280674.

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.] FINE+/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by subject (Thomas Cairns Livingstone) illustrated dw/dj,with glossy superimposed, dark brown lettered part-title,the remainder in capitalised,flat printed,red lettered sub-title, capitalised,brown lettered author/subject name and other brown lettering for 'Foreword by Andrew Marr' to front panel; spine/ backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+title as front and publisher's black lettered+pictorial illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with a brown lettered diary extract and an adhesive,foil security tag to lower corner. Negliglble shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - miniscule corner tips' rubbing - but no other nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered, original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black lettered spine/ backstrip,a red+orange striped headband,and immaculate plain dark brown endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xxixpp+2-382pp [paginated] includes an Introduction of About the Diaries by Shaun Sewell,a Foreword by Andrew Marr,People and Places (in the Daries),2 double-page brown+ black maps of Glasgow North and Glasgow South respectively,Diary entries for consecutive years 1913-1918,each and all with colour illustrations drawn by the diarist and accompanying relevant contemporary thumbnail sepia+b/w photographs related to events and places mentioned,pencilled Diary entries for 1933 and 1950,subject's contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs and colour photograph of collection of the diaries and picture credits with a request for any further information in relation to the diaries people+events within,to its reverse and as last pages. Plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication with blank verso,and a Contents list/table.  Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 15-year-old age.It is only the minimal,minor exterior fault that prevents a slightly higher grading for the dw/dj.Despite that,it really is an exceptional and exemplary copy for its cleanliness and brightness.For another similar example of this same title,a UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,see my book ID rja1059023.  The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s. Thomas Cairns Livingstone,a mercantile book keeper,began his diaries in 1913,when he, his wife Agnes and their son 'wee Tommy' set up house in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. For the next twenty years,Livingstone dutifully recorded each day's events in his Collins diaries,from small domestic dramas to troop movements as news of the Great War filtered back to the anxious home front.Rescued during a house clearance,the intricate details of these journals - interspersed throughout with Livingstone's wonderfully warm and idiosyncratic illustrations - provide a priceless record of the impression world events were making on the ordinary people at home and an extraordinary chronicle of the ups and downs of working-class life in the period immediately before, during and after the First World War.  Unique and utterly compelling.'Tommy's War' is beautifully written,touching and difficult to put down. Shaun Sewell is an avid antiques dealer who spotted Thomas Cairns Livingstone's diaries in a shoebox at an auction.Captivated by the author's wit,the vivid picture he gives of daily life during the First World War,and his skilled illustrations,Shaun bought the diaries and later showed them on the BBC's 'The Antiques Roadshow'.  Please contact seller,because of the heavier weight of this item - 1.150Kg unpackaged,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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