drummond allison (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 127 pages. Price clipped. dj dented. on front.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xvi,86pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, brown cloth, gilt titles, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 0704901072.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 47, [1]. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. From the Gary E Prouk collection of Fortune Press books. In D'Arch Smith (R.A. Caton & The Fortune Press): 06. Portrait and decorations by David Haughton. Very good plus.

hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 128 Seiten; 9780950278636.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. David Haughton (illustrator). Black hardcover with title in faded gilt on spine. Condition: Very good. Binding sound. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. A label with a handwritten inscription in ink "With love from Drummond Allison" is fixed just below the portrait frontispiece of Allison by David Haughton (see image). Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with sunning to edges and a couple of small tears. 48pp. b/w frontispiece portrait and decorations within the book are by David Haughton (1924-1991). Drummond Allison (1921-1943) was an English war poet, killed in action in Garigliano, Italy, and now buried there in the Minturno war cemetery. Allison died in 1943 and the book was published in 1944, so presumably the label with the handwritten note and signature fixed under the frontispiece was written prior to his death. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 21 x 15 cm. 47 pp. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear and toning to extremes. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine: crisp and clean. Clean throughout with entirely form binding. Offset pages.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Limited Edition. 8vo. limited edition 300 copies, 213 pp. ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1994, complements slip from editor, some light foxing to foredges, very good in original red cloth gilt, and dustwrapper with some very light shelfwear and some minor foxing on the inside of wrapper, title faintly sunned, very good. see photos of this copy supplied. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Black buckram lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on laid paper. The tip of one corner gently knocked and with a short mark to the buckram at the upper board. Several tiny pinpricks of spotting to the upper margin of the title leaf. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded and rubbed with a tiny sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel. Fifty-one poems, including many with a Secord World War theme. The author's first book, published posthumously following his death in action in Italy in December 1943. Uncommon, and more so with the dust wrapper.

Hardback. Limited Edition. This book of poems is published privately in an original run of 300. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A very smart limited edition of this collection of poetry from English war poet John Drummond Allison. Limited to three hundred copies. Very scarce work. A collection of poetry from John Drummond Allison, an English war poet of the Second World War. With poems organised into each year of his service as an Intelligence Officer in the East Surrey Regiment, until his death in action on the Garigliano in Italy in 1943. Edited and introduced by Stephen Benson, a British lecturer in contemporary British literature. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. book.

First edition. Original black cloth, spine lettering dull as always; fine, basically. With an 8-line autograph working draft, extensively re-written, of Barker's "Love Poem VIII" written in pencil on the front endpaper, dated 1946. Drummond Allison (1921- 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of World War II. He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where he was killed in action fighting on the Garigliano.