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The Endless Adventure.
1930Best.-Nr. biblio59Three volumes. Macmillan and Co. London. 1930 1931 1935. Octavo. xii 428pp Frontis. 7 further plates; xiii 333pp Frontis. 6 further plates; vii 241pp Photo Frontis. Original blue cloth spine labels browned faded and sunned to spines covers mottled/marked. Scuff to Vol. II rear board. Tissue guards. "From the author" tipped in to Volume I inscribed "To Jermyn Moorsom from his friend F. S. Oliver" to ffep Volume II. Frederick Scott Oliver 1864-1934 Political writer businessman Jermyn Moorsom 1881-1951 Son of James Marshall Moorsom. Haileybury Eton. One of Darling's Kingsmen at Cambridge one of Josie Low's "Quartet" friend of EM Forster etc. m. Pamela Milbourne-Swinnerton-Pilkington 1926. Became a sheep farmer at Hyndlee Hawick and later moved to Durrus near Cork. Died March 1951 Durrus Court Bantry having changed his surname to 'Moorson'. "This is a book about politics. Its subject is the endless adventure of governing men. Its object is to show how politicians of various sorts contrived to carry on governments and to thwart discredit and destroy governments…" Macmillan and Co hardcover
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