Mark vii max plowman (10 Ergebnisse)

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG-. No Jacket. Third Impression. 12mo. original charcoal cloth (a little rubbed & bumped, slight fraying to headcap, splitting to cloth over lower hinge, prev. owner's details to FFE, occ. spots and marks, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. [x (last blank)], 242 (last colpohon), [4 (pubs. advts.)]. A good copy of an uncommon first person account.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ix, 241 pages. Black cloth covers with red lettering on spine and red decoration on front board. Covers and spine ends rubbed. Owner's stamp and bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. Some surface damage to title page where a name has been erased and then written over in pencil "[Max Plowman]". One leaf semi-detached (pages 5-6) . Rear gutter cracked. Bookseller's sticker on rear pastedown.; 12mo.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. An uncommon, first edition of this memoir from poet and pacifist, Max Plowman, written under the pseudonym of Mark VII. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with red motif to the front cover. Lacking the dust wrapper. This First World War memoir documents the experiences of British writer and pacifist Max Plowman, who wrote this particular work under the pseudonym of Mark VII. Plowman was morally opposed to fighting, calling it "insane and unmitigated filth", although signed up for the Royal Army Medical Corps. During his time on the Western Front, Plowman suffered concussion and shellshock, spending the remainder of the war as a conscientious objector. This work presents Plowman's memories from July 1916 to January 1917. With a previous owners ink inscription 'To Dearest Kenneth from Patricia' dated 1927. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally good, with damp staining to the cloth and the occasional tear. Hinges are slightly strained but holding firm. Light offsetting to endpapers, with an ink inscription to the front. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with light spotting to the fore edge. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp ix, 241. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered red at the spine with a field punishment symbol on the front cover. Publisher's retained copy with their perforated stamp in the preliminaries and label on the front pastedown, reading 'File Copy - Sept. 23rd 1927'. About fine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Important and acclaimed account. of experiences on bthe Somme. The author Max Plowrman became a pacifist after the war. This 1927 first English edition has the powerful field punishment image in red on the black cloth boards. 241pp., some foxing and a few minor blemishes, else a very nice copy.…

First edition, in the scarce jacket, of one of the most significant Great War books. "His account of a spell in the half-formed line between Lesboeufs and Gueudecourt in the all-pervading mud of that dreadful winter. is as vivid as anything that has been written about the Somme fighting" (Falls). Plowman (1883-1941) signed up despite deep moral misgivings about the rightness of war. Invalided out from the western front, he was treated for shell shock and refused to rejoin his unit in 1918. Tried and dismissed from the army, he became an active member of the Peace Pledge Union and edited the New Adelphi, striking up a close friendship with Orwell, whose contributions he encouraged. His is "one of the most important memoirs of disillusionment" (Lengel). Falls, p. 217; Lengel 790. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red, "Field Punishment Number One" device in red on front cover, top edge red. With dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, light marking to cloth, damp stains on top edge, intruding into upper margin of endleaves; jacket unclipped, damp stains, short closed tear at head of front panel: a very good copy in like jacket. …