IN PARENTHESIS - seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu (First edition - third impression in dustwrapper)

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Third impression of the true first edition, published in the same format as the first impression in July 1938. The first impression was published in June 1937, with a second impression the following month. With two lithographic illustrations after drawings by the author (one used as the frontispiece), and a map. ***A near fine copy in beige cloth-covered boards, with a gilt-bordered panel on the spine. The boards are clean - just slightly darkened from age and handling. The binding is straight with no reading lean. Page block edges clean, with just some light sporadic foxing to the fore-edge. The top edge is stained grey by the publisher to match the dustwrapper. There are no bumps or creases to the boards, and the corners are sharp. No tears to the cloth and no splitting. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations, but with an attractive period bookplate "Dorothy Deane her book" on the front pastedown. The paper is clean without any marks or foxing - just some light sporadic foxing to the endpapers. The map and two illustrations are also clean. No creases or tears. ***In a very good printed dustwrapper, which is complete except for having been square price-clipped (please see scans). The head and tail of the spine are slightly creased, but there is no loss and no chips or tears. The back panel is somewhat marked and darkened (being a white background). There is also some darkening to the edges of the inner flaps. ***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 pre-war third impression of the true first edition. With a very well preserved interior and a complete original dustwrapper. Uncommon in early impression in this collectable condition. There wasn't a fourth impression until 1955. A very nicely produced book. ***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. N° de ref. del artículo 8826

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