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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED

Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED

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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED

by de la Mare, Walter (illus, Rex Whistler)

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Very good 1st edition, no d/j, green boards/brown spine (sunning at edges and spine); gilt decorations and titling clear; untrim
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London: Faber & Faber, 1930. 1st. h/b. Very good 1st edition, no d/j, green boards/brown spine (sunning at edges and spine); gilt decorations and titling clear; untrimmed pages very good, clean and unmarked, only a little foxing on endpapers and edges. Very good copy. Signed to half title, 'With all good wishes, Walter de la Mare, March 2 1931"".. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '""De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the quotations themselves; so that the whole emerges less as a collection of other men's writings than an expression of the thoughts aroused in the anthologists by these writings, and coloured by the mood in which he read them. These anthologies represent a new literary form invented by Mr de la Mare, which he has employed as yet another mode to express his unique vision of reality.""

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe) SIGNED
Author
de la Mare, Walter (illus, Rex Whistler)
Format/Binding
H/b
Book Condition
Used - Very good 1st edition, no d/j, green boards/brown spine (sunning at edges and spine); gilt decorations and titling clear; untrim
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1930
Pages
286
Size
8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
1st, signed, fiction, literature, anthology, de la Mare, Georgian Poets
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2nd-hand books;

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INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)

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