Douglas keith waller john (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in publisher's teal cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Trivial soiling to the edges of the text block. Ownership signature on the front free endpaper. In a very good unclipped dust jacket showing some light handling. 8vo. Pp. [6] 7-164.…

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. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped But Crossed Out Dust Jacket Tiny Tear Top Back, Tiny Damp Stain Spine Bottom. B/W Frontis Photograph Of Dougals. Index Of First Lines. 164 Pgs. Rare Edition.

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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 (ilustrador). book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped Dust Jacket, Has Minor Edge Wear Top And Bottom Of Spine. No Markings, 153 Pgs Illustrated.A Fine Copy.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.64. Publisher's card wraps, stapled. Illustrated with colour lithographs by Graham Sutherland who also provides the illustration for the cover. Undated but 1943. Neat ownership to inside of front cover, toned to edges. Covers split and detached along the spine. Very good.…

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).…