Roux The Bandit (First Uk Edition, Fine In Fine Jacket, With Advance Review Slip)

London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. First UK Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine DJ. 128 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Printed In Yellow. First Uk Edition, With Gollancz Review Slip For Oct. 7, 1929 Publication. Fine With Slight Browning To Endpapers, In Fine Yellow And Black Dj, Two Tiny Closed Tears At Bottom Edge Of Spine Panel, Unfaded And Unworn. "The Story Of A French Conscientious Objector Of 1914... Who Escapes Into The Mountains, Where He Lives For Over Three Years, Alone And Amid Terrible Privations. He Is Eventually Caught And Imprisoned, But Not Before He Has Become An Almost Supernatural Figure In The Eyes Of His Folk... It Is Based Upon An Actual Case Now Fast Becoming A Legend... Roux The Bandit, Though Essentially A Work Of Art And Not In Any Sense Propaganda, Embodies The Only Kind Of Pacifism Which In The End Can Prevail- The Pacifism That Knows That War Is Spiritually Wrong And Not Merely Wrong Because It Is Horrible" [From The Dj]. Per Wikipedia. Chamson (1900 - 1983) Was A French Archivist, Novelist And Essayist. Chamson Was The Founder-Director Of The Journal Vendredi And A Museum Curator Before The Second World War. As An Activist In The Popular Front , He Founded In 1935 With Jean Guehenno And Andree Viollis The Weekly Friday. During The Spanish Civil War , He Joined The Side Of The Republicans. After The War He Was On The Editorial Board Of The Magazine Europe At The Time Of Its Revival In 1946; He Was A Curator At The Musée Du Petit Palais, And (From 1959 To 1971) Director Of The Archives De France. He Was President Of Pen International, The Worldwide Association Of Writers, From 1956 To 1959. He Was Elected To The Académie Française On 17 May 1956 By 18 Votes - Including Jules Romains, André Maurois And Georges Duhamel - To Succeed Ernest Seillière. In 1958, He Was Elected Mainteneur Of The Académie Des Jeux Floraux. A Protestant, Generous And Sociable In Both His Life And His Writing, He Set Most Of His Tales In The Cévennes, His Birthplace (Roux Le Bandit, 1925; Les Hommes De La Route, 1927; Le Crime Des Justes, 1928; L'auberge De L'abîme, 1933; La Neige Et La Fleur, 1951; La Tour De Constance, 1970). He Was The Father Of The Novelist Frédérique Hébrard.