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McWilliams, H H : The Diabolical : An Account of the Adventures of Five People Who Set Out in a Converted Ford Lorry to Make a Journey from Palestine to England Across Asia Minor and the Balkans

Duckworth, London, 1934

311 pages (complete). Inscribed by McWilliams: "To Eric Attwell - with the compliments of the Author! 5/2/55". Eric Attwell was a fellow Port Elizabethan. In his salad days he and his brother, Jack cycled across Africa and Europe to England in 1933. He wrote a now legendary account of this trip, "The Road to London". In his middle years (and after this inscription) Attwell, a member of Alan Paton's Liberal Party, was banned by the paranoidal John Vorster. A much owned copy. The boards are scuffed, worn, handled all about. They are comfortable and secure. The contents are amiably aged. They have freckles of foxing throughout. The page edges have handling wear. Nonetheless, the book is mild-mannered, genial, clean, clear, contented, sound, engaging, encouraging, pleasingly comfortable. fk. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

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McWILLIAMS, H.H : The Diabolical. An Account of the Adventures of Five People Who Set Out in a Converted Ford Lorry to Make a Journey from Palestine to England Across Asia Minor and the Balkans

Duckworth, 1934

First Edition. A very good copy in the original pale brown cloth, spine faded, boards marked and lightly stained, title page, prelims and edges foxed. INSCRIBED presentation copy, "For my Friend John Heydenryck, an out of date token of an up to date friendship, from the author" Jan 1953.

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