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The surrender of silence : being the memoirs of Ironfoot Jack Neave, king of the Bohemians / edited by Colin Stanley ; introduction by Phil Baker.
Van Pelt Library DA676.8.N43 A3 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neave, Jack Rudolph, 1881-1959, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neave, Jack Rudolph, 1881-1959.
- Neave, Jack Rudolph.
- London (England)--Biography.
- London (England).
- London (England)--Civilization--20th century.
- Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Businessmen.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Strange Attractor Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Escape artist, fortune-teller, author, and raconteur 'Ironfoot Jack, ' aka Jack Rudolph Neave (1881-1959), the self-styled 'King of the Bohemians, ' was a well-known Soho character in pre- and postwar London. His rich and enthralling story of a lifestyle now gone forever was dictated as his portrait was being painted by the artist Timothy Whidborne in 1956. It was then entrusted to a Soho acquaintance, the author Colin Wilson whose first book The Outsider, had been a success in the same year. Despite his efforts, Wilson failed to find a publisher and, after his death, the manuscript was discovered among his papers by his bibliographer Colin Stanley, who assembled the text, which is accompanied by a contextual introduction by cultural historian Phil Baker."--Amazon.com.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781907222658
- 1907222650
- OCLC:
- 1006634010
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