Douglas keith waller john (5 Ergebnisse)

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (faint spotting on page edges - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 164, illus with b&w plates and drawings in text (no inscriptions).

London, 1951. XXI,151 pp. Cloth. Name on first end-paper. French-title browned. Spine discol.First edition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First US Edition. A FIrst US, Revised Edition, stated second printing. Illustrations in black and white. A clean, tightly, bound ex-library copy with spinal label and rear free endpaper removed - without marks or any other indications of its former life. A RARE book in any condition, and this a very nice example showing light shelf and edge wear only.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. A charming early edition of a wry memoir from a war poet considered to be a great loss to literature, with an introduction by novelist Lawrence Durrell. A charming early edition of Alamein to Zem Zem, a wry memoir from the Western Desert Campaign, written by war poet and soldier Keith Douglas, with an introduction by British poet and author Lawrence Durrell, and edited by John Waller, G.S. Fraser, and J.C. Hall. Published by Faber and Faber in 1966, first published in 1946.In the publisher's original navy blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Contains a frontispiece, and in-text illustrations.An intriguing writer, rather than his memoir being sentimental like many other war poets, Douglas writes with a candid observation that critics have claimed as being cold while admirers consider it refreshing. Killed during the 1944 Invasion of Normandy, many consider Douglas to have been a great loss to literature. In the publisher's original navy blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with a couple of small faint marks to spine. Minor knocks to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Dust wrapper is bright and clean with minimal edgewear. Very minor printing marks to rear flyleaf joint. End papers are bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Various (illustrator). book.…

First edition. pp xxii, 151. Two-page Editors' Preface. Reproductions of two ''airgraph'' poems by the author, the author's holograph manuscript of his last finished poem and his own cover design for his first projected collection. Dedicatory poem, Biographical Note and fifteen pages of notes at the rear by John Waller. Six full-page black and white illustrations.From the library of the poet Dannie Abse with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper.Free endpapers faintly tanned. Head and tail of spine a bit darkened. Very good indeed in the remains of the dustwrapper (the spine panel is missing).…