THE WET FLANDERS PLAIN.
by WILLIAMSON, Henry
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: The Beaumont Press, [1929]. First Edition, Limited Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good. Royal octavo, original decorated paper over boards, buckram spine titled in gilt. 96 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 400 hand-numbered copies, this being copy No. 124 of 320 printed on hand-made paper. Title-page vignette by Randolph Schwabe. Spine panel a touch darkened, tiny bookseller's ticket from The Gotham Book Mart on rear endpaper; a very good, bright copy.
¶ THE WET FLANDERS PLAIN made its first appearance in print in the Daily Express, in serial form, under the title SO THIS WAS YPRES. Issued in the same year as the trade edition published by Faber & Faber; according to A BIBLIOGRAPHY... OF HENRY WILLIAMSON by Girvan (The Alcuin press, 1931) the Faber edition has a noticable and significant ommission from the text published in the Beaumont Press edition.
¶ THE WET FLANDERS PLAIN made its first appearance in print in the Daily Express, in serial form, under the title SO THIS WAS YPRES. Issued in the same year as the trade edition published by Faber & Faber; according to A BIBLIOGRAPHY... OF HENRY WILLIAMSON by Girvan (The Alcuin press, 1931) the Faber edition has a noticable and significant ommission from the text published in the Beaumont Press edition.
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- Bookseller
- Thompson Rare Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 311474
- Title
- THE WET FLANDERS PLAIN.
- Author
- WILLIAMSON, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Limited Edition.
- Publisher
- The Beaumont Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1929]
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- Literature;
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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