All My Yesterdays: An Autobiography por Cecil Lewis - 1993-03-25

Element Books, 1993-04. Hardcover. Good.

HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Good.

HarperCollins Publishers Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Element, Shaftesbury. 1993. 1st. edn. Hardback in unclipped dustwrapper. Lge 8vo. viii, pp210. Orig blue cloth, gilt to bumped spine. 14 b/w photo-illus. Former-owner's neat signature to fep. Bar stated faults VG in like d/w with some wrinkling to upper edge. In this book "He recounts his survival, flying with the Royal Flying Corps over the front line of the Somme Battle in 1916 and following this, almost without pause, taking up the romantic and unheard of assignment of travelling to Peking to teach the Chinese to fly! But the high-spirited adventure of these early days is followed, even more remarkably, by Cecil Lewis's lucky chance of helping to found the BBC. To have been in at the start of two of the greatest social developments of Western civilisation - flying and broadcasting - would have been enough to fill out many men's lives. For the next twenty years, until he reaches 70, Lewis tells of his full involvement in the ideas of Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and the book is an… Ler mais

Dorset, England/Rockport MA: Element, 1993. 6/93 reprint . hard. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 1-85230-405-7. World War I British aviator, later becamedisciple of G. I. Gurdjieff, noted philosopher b/w photos. near fine, nf dj, gold-stamped blue bds, clean text 210 pgs

Element, Shaftesbury, 1993.. Collectible, Fine/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine blue pictorial dj. First edition. Clean, unmarked. 210pp, b&w photographic illustrations. account of the progress of Cecil Lewis throughout his varied career. He tells of his days in WWI, flying SE5s with No 56 Squadron RFC, and of his post-war contract with Vickers teaching the Chinese to fly. He then moved to the BBC and became an accomplished author and film director, eventually to find himself a spiritual leader. Written when he was 95, this is an amazing record of a unique life.