New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1924 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Thick Octavo. Large Thick 8vo. xxii, 404 pp, illus. First Edition, 1924. Owner's ex libris plate on front pastedown. Only the slightest edge wear with age-toned text block and margin edges, else, no wear. No markings, tight binding and clean. 6.5" x 9.5". Dark-red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "8 Essays on Pepys, Benjamin Disraeli, William Monson, Thomas Blood, Cromwell, John Wentworth, The Venerable Bede, and John Scott, as the title suggests, are bound by a common thread. Each in its way is an illustration of the vicissitudes of fame, a story of the struggle to achieve reputation, and the adventures of those reputations once they were achieved; not so much biographical essays as studies in the universal conflict with oblivion.".

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005757
Title: Conflicts with Oblivion
Author: Abbott, Wilbur Cortez
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good +
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Place of Publication: New Haven, CT
Date Published: 1924
Keywords: BRITISH HISTORY ESSAYS STUDIES IN RECOGNITION AND FAME
Bookseller catalogs: BRITISH HISTORY;
Size: Large Thick Octavo

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