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TOMLINSON, Henry Major (1873-1958). Mars His Idiot. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. 8° (180 x 158mm). Proof copy printed on rectos only. (Occasional light spotting and marking, some slight creasing.) Original printed yellow wrappers titled in black on upper wrapper and spine and inkstamped 'FIRST PROOFS (ONCE READ ONLY)' on upper wrapper (somewhat marked, stained and creased). Provenance: H.M. Tomlinson (autograph inscription on upper wrapper 'When finished with, Please return to H.M. Tomlinson' above his address).
H.M. TOMLINSON. Mars His Idiot. London: The Windmill Press for William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. 8° (190 x 126mm). (Extreme fore-edges lightly spotted.) Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind on lower board, dustwrapper (board-edges lightly bumped, dustwrapper a little marked and with short tears causing minor losses). Provenance: Mary (autograph presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'To Mary from Flos [i.e. Florence Margaret] and Harry [Tomlinson] Christmas 1935' and further signed at end of text 'H.M. Tomlinson'). The two volumes contained in a modern box.
TOMLINSON'S CORRECTED PROOF COPY AND A PRESENTATION COPY OF HIS ANTI-WAR TRACT MARS HIS IDIOT. The proof copy (which does not contain a title and has the dedication 'To unknown warriors' supplied in manuscript on a preliminary blank) is extensively corrected; Tomlinson appears to have made preliminary corrections and amendments in pencil and then over-written them in ink (although it is possible that some of the pencil corrections are in another hand). Tomlinson was a war correspondent during the First World War -- firstly in Belgium and France in 1914 for the Daily News and latterly as Official War correspondent at British General Headquarters in France from 1914-1917 -- and this experience informed his anti-war stance, expressed in All Our Yesterdays (1930) and Mars His Idiot, which was written for a younger generation who had not experienced war: 'Many of them don't know there is so much honour to be won in war to-day as in falling a victim in a cholera epidemic. And that both are the result of ignorance'. (2)
H.M. TOMLINSON. Mars His Idiot. London: The Windmill Press for William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. 8° (190 x 126mm). (Extreme fore-edges lightly spotted.) Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind on lower board, dustwrapper (board-edges lightly bumped, dustwrapper a little marked and with short tears causing minor losses). Provenance: Mary (autograph presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'To Mary from Flos [i.e. Florence Margaret] and Harry [Tomlinson] Christmas 1935' and further signed at end of text 'H.M. Tomlinson'). The two volumes contained in a modern box.
TOMLINSON'S CORRECTED PROOF COPY AND A PRESENTATION COPY OF HIS ANTI-WAR TRACT MARS HIS IDIOT. The proof copy (which does not contain a title and has the dedication 'To unknown warriors' supplied in manuscript on a preliminary blank) is extensively corrected; Tomlinson appears to have made preliminary corrections and amendments in pencil and then over-written them in ink (although it is possible that some of the pencil corrections are in another hand). Tomlinson was a war correspondent during the First World War -- firstly in Belgium and France in 1914 for the Daily News and latterly as Official War correspondent at British General Headquarters in France from 1914-1917 -- and this experience informed his anti-war stance, expressed in All Our Yesterdays (1930) and Mars His Idiot, which was written for a younger generation who had not experienced war: 'Many of them don't know there is so much honour to be won in war to-day as in falling a victim in a cholera epidemic. And that both are the result of ignorance'. (2)
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