SYMONS JULIAN — Horatio Bottomley

The Cresset Press, lONDON. 1955, 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22cm. Book, Horatio Bottomley's story is the tale of a buffoon with a golden tongue of a drum beating journalist whose influence durimg the first world war grew to a point at which he was nearly included in the post war Cabinet, of a swindler beloved by his victims, of sudden ruin, imprisonment and the pathetic aftermath. It is a story which in any serious sense has never been told before. Small loss to dust jacket, now in protective cover. Good/Good/Fair.