A Victorian Son, an autobiography 1897 - 1922. Cloete, Stuart

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First Edition, Collins, London, 1972. Hard cover, Rust brown cloth boards, with a gilt stamped brown spine-title label. Corners are bumped as are head and tail of spine top edge of boards as well as the head of the spine are dust stained. Front free endpaper has a previous owners signature. Some spotting on first few pages, frontispiece portrait (Black & White) of the author in 1918. Binding is solid, internally the book is very good. dust jacket is sunned on spine with some browning and is chipped and worn with scuffing to edges. Cloete, a South African novelist, born in Paris, had a strong sense of his Boer heritage. This covers his Paris childhood, full of loving nostalgia, and includes details of his WWI experiences with the Yorkshire Light Infantry and the cold stream Guards. He went into the army straight from school and was one of the youngest commissioned officers in the war. He was wounded twice, the second time very seriously.