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Jersey in Jail 1940-45
By Horace Wyatt, pictures by Edmund Blampied
Horace Wyatt (1865-1954) was the author of one other book, an alternative to Alice in Wonderland called Malice in Kulturland (London, 1914). During the Occupation he wrote the libretto for an opera called The Paladins or the Spell of the Sword and the Shield with music by Philip Larbalestier (who may have been the cousin of James, the source of the name of this web site). It was presented at the Opera House by the Jersey Green Room Club in October 1943. He was the father of Bob Wyatt, a well known cricketer.
The Introduction states that the book was written and illustrated in Jersey, during the Occupation. It takes the form of unsent letters. The verses were written by P.G. Larbalestier.
Front and rear covers (click to enlarge)
Bibliography code: HUE-45.1i
Publisher: Ernest Huelin, Jersey
Series: no
Year: 1945
Format: 8vo
Pages: Decorated end papers, limitation page, title page, pp 5 - 93
Binding: White printed paper boards
Size: 250 x 205 mm
Dust jacket: Issued in clear glassine jacket (only a remnant seen)
Internal illustrations: endpapers, limitation page, title page, 17 line illustrations on a single page, two on half a page, all signed Blampied
Price: unknown
Printing history: First and only edition
Printed by: Alba Press Ltd, 80 Fleet Street, London, E.C. 4
Limitation page signed by Wyatt and Blampied. Copy dedicated to Cecil Hunt (click to enlarge)
Notes: A signed copy without a number has been seen. Blampied was paid 5 shillings for each copy of the books sold, which must have been welcome income after the lack of opportunity to sell pictures during the Occupation.
Bibliography code: HUE-45.1ii
Publisher: Ernest Huelin, Jersey
Series: no
Year: 1946?
Format: 8vo
Pages: Decorated end papers, limitation page, title page, pp 5 - 93, 1 blank leaf
Binding: Green textured cloth boards with title and name of author and illustrator in gold (usually faded to yellow) on front cover; plain spine and rear cover
Size: 250 x 205 mm
Dust jacket: None seen
Internal illustrations: endpapers, title page, 17 line illustrations on a single page, two on half a page, all signed Blampied
Price: 15 shillings (review in The Sphere, 11th January, 1947)
Printing history: First trade edition
Printed by: Alba Press Ltd, 80 Fleet Street, London, E.C. 4
Cover of trade edition (click to enlarge)
Notes: Copies of this edition signed by Blampied, Wyatt or Ernest Huelin, the publisher have been seen.
A copy of this book is listed by a publisher named Aris & Philips dated either 1940 (which is not possible) or 1991; or it could be a mistake in a database. The book was reissued in 1985 by La Haule Books, Jersey, which is beyond the limits of this bibliography.