{"product_id":"goodbye-mr-chips","title":"Goodbye, Mr Chips","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHILTON, James\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGoodbye, Mr Chips\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLondon: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton, 1934\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCrown 8vo., original bright blue publisher’s boards, lettered typographically in gilt to upper cover and backstrip with publisher’s name and device to foot; decorative endpapers with banners featuring Latin phrases from the Aeneid (“O Mihi Praeteritos Referat si Jupiter Annos” and “Haec Olim Meminisse Juvabit”); together in the original publisher’s blue and black printed dustwrapper, priced 5\/- net to spine; pp. [vi], 7-127, [i]; featuring four full-page captioned illustrations as well as two vignettes in black and white; the boards clean and bright with a little pushing to spine tips; internal text block with some scattered foxing throughout, but mostly affecting the prelims and the outer edges of the text block; previous owner’s name in blue biro to ffep; the wrapper good, though darkened to the panels and folds; ‘S.S’ written in blue ink to front flap, and perhaps most significantly wear, tearing and chips to outer edges and along spine; reinforced internally with tape and stickers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, preceded by the U.S. edition the previous year which was unillustrated. This copy containing the clipped inscription to the half title: “For Mr[?] D. Rebbeck with good wishes from James Hilton Hollywood October 1947.” Hilton had moved to California in 1938, at which point his work became more connected with the Hollywood film industry. A laminated photograph from the 1969 film is also loosely laid in. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Lancashire in 1900, James Hilton completed his secondary school years at the Leys School in Cambridge, a private boarding and day school which later formed the basis for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGoodbye Mr. Chips!. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTogether with his father (who was a headmaster at a Chapel End School in Walthamstow), the inspiration for the titular character came in the form of William Henry Balgarnie, under whom Hilton studied between the years of 1915-1918. Balgarnie was formative for the young writer, and was responsible for publishing Hilton’s first stories in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeys Fortnightly. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA rather strict disciplinarian, Balgarnie nonetheless was fond of his wards, and frequently invited them for tea and biscuits. “When I read so many other stories about public school life, I am struck by the fact that I suffered no such purgatory as their authors apparently did”, Hilton wrote upon Balgarnie’s death in 1951. “Much of this miracle was due to Balgarnie.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book was subsequently adapted twice for film, the first in 1939 and the second in 1969, when it was transformed into a musical starring\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark, with an underscore by John Williams.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-3aa1142c-7fff-23de-6d63-83efdbfa0562\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelatively \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escarce signed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56703659114820,"sku":null,"price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/75302469.jpg?v=1777315112","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/goodbye-mr-chips","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}