IN PARENTHESIS - seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu (First edition - first impression - a copy suitable for restoration or rebinding)

David Jones

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 3 Queen Square, London, 1937

Beschreibung

First impression of the true first edition. With two lithographic illustrations after drawings by the author (one used as the frontispiece), and a map. ***Please note that this is a restoration or rebinding copy as the spine backstrip has split along the edge of the back board. ***Good only in beige cloth-covered boards, with a gilt-bordered panel on the spine. The boards are quite heavily worn and marked from age and handling, this being a copy that was in the Times Book Club. With a small Times Book Club label to the back pastedown along with a lot of notations (please see scans). The backstrip has detached from the back board as the cloth has split, and there is some splitting to the lower edge of the spine and the front board. There is a cup stain on the back board. Internally the book is actually very good with no inscriptions or annotations. The paper is clean without any marks or foxing. The map and two illustrations are clean. No dustwrapper. ***225mm x150mm. 227 pages including a section of notes at the back of the book. ***'Walter David Jones CH, CBE (1 Nov 1895 - 28 Oct 1974) was a Welsh painter and modernist poet. As a painter he worked mainly in watercolour on portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and inscription painter. In 1965, Kenneth Clark took him to be the best living British painter, while both T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden put his poetry among the best written in their century. Jones's work gains form from his Christian faith and Welsh heritage. "In Parenthesis" is an epic poem of the First World War by David Jones first published in England in 1937. Although Jones had been known solely as an engraver and painter prior to its publication, the poem won the Hawthornden Prize and the admiration of writers such as W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Based on Jones's own experience as an infantryman, "In Parenthesis" narrates the experiences of English Private John Ball in a mixed English-Welsh regiment starting with embarkation from England and ending seven months later with the assault on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme. The work employs a mixture of lyrical verse and prose, is highly allusive, and ranges in tone from formal to Cockney colloquial and military slang. T. S. Eliot called it "a work of genius." W. H. Auden considered it "a masterpiece," "the greatest book about the First World War" that he had read, a work in which Jones did "for the British and the Germans what Homer did for the Greeks and the Trojans" in "a masterpiece" comparable in quality to The Divine Comedy. The novelist and poet Adam Thorpe says it "towers above any other prose or verse memorial of that war (indeed, of any war)". The Jones scholar Thomas Dilworth writes that it is "probably the greatest work of British Modernism written between the wars" and "the greatest work of literature in English on war."' (Wiki) ***A scarce first impression of the true first edition and uncommon thus. With a very well preserved interior, the book would make a very good candidate for a rebind or perhaps just some restoration to the spine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8137x

Bibliografische Details

Titel: IN PARENTHESIS - seinnyessit e gledyf ym ...

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 3 Queen Square, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1937

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: First Edition