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Jones David

In Parenthesis. seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE THIRD IMPRESSION

Faber, 1938

1351.25 €

Island Books (Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1938
Author
Jones David
Publishers
Faber
Keyword
modern first editions, modern firsts, david jones, ww1, wwi, great war, in parenthesis
Languages
English

Description

8vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece, plate and full-page map; sand cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and sand, pale blue top, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backtrip, and a little browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. With a few relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Published a year after the first edition. One of the finest (and scarcest) literary works to emerge from the Great War, Hailed as 'a work of genius' by Eliot (then at Faber) it was awarded the Hawthorden Prize for 1938. RARE IN THIS CONDITION.