Reluctant Neighbours

The Bodley Head, London, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles on the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with black and red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black-and-white photographs of author to the rear panel. The autobiography of an author, of a " ... childhood and school in British Guiana; Cambridge; the easy, camaraderie of the RAF officers' mess in wartime; the English couple who befriended him, in whom he came to call Mum and Dad; his disillusionment and growing bitterness when, in post-war Britain, he was turned down for job after job on the grounds of his colour alone; his eventual gravitation into teaching in the East End of London, and his struggle to find a way of teaching his unruly class; his time as an LCC welfare officer; his brief return to his racial groups in Africa; the success as a writer; his appointment as Guyanese ambassador 1st to the United Nations, and then to Venezuela." – from the front fold over panel blurb. Rubbing of the back strip corners and the book corners stop age toning of the text block edges and pages. Some toxin splotches to the end pages along with some faint offset tanning. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. Some faint foxing along the top edge of the dustwrapper and fading of the back strip. Foxing to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 7 - 189, [3] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Britain/UK; ISBN: 0370102703. ISBN/EAN: 9780370102702. Inventory No: 0127365. . 9780370102702