Isbn: 9781900564878 - wedding poems (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. From the library of Jeremy Hooker. Very minor shelfwear and slight foxing to edge of text block. Some pages have minor pencil lines to margins. Otherwise clean, bright, tight book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Nice copy in dustwrapper. Loosely inserted a presentation autograph note signed from the publisher, Stephen Stuart-Smith, to Dominic Hibberd - "I so admire your work on [Wilfred] Owen and [Harold] Monro". "Published here for the first time are two poems by David Jones written in 1940 in London during the Blitz. The first poem, 'Prothalamion', is a powerful commemoration of the Blitz and must be ranked among the finest short poems of the 1939-45 war. The second, longer poem, 'Epithalamion', is a symbolic assessment of western culture since the middle ages" (publisher's blurb).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine +. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression - an association copy inscribed by Tom Durham, who frequently gives talks on Jones, whom he knew as a child. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper is bright, clean, unfaded and complete. It is unclipped. Looks sharp in protective wrapper. THE BOOK : The book is tight and square. The boards are clean, the corners sharp. There is very light bumping to the spine ends. There is an inscription to the front endpaper by Tom Durham, who features in the book's Acknowlegements. The binding is tight. The pages are bright and clean. There is a publisher's advertising slip loosely inserted, as well as a photocopy of typewritten notes, presumably used by Durham at a talk on Jones. An interesting first edition, this being an association copy. PayPal accepted.…