Search Results: wet flanders plain by williamson henry

Paperback. Acceptable.

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Stated first edition. Boards rubbed and soiled. Missing dust jacket. Bookplate and ink inscription on front endpapers. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

Stated first edition. 8vo in publisher's cloth. 122 pp. G+. Moderate wear to corners and spine ends. Slight spine slant. Light foxing to board edges. Ownership signature of actor Edward Herrmann on the ffep. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

New York: Dutton, 1929. First. hardcover. very good. 122 pages, 8vo, black and yellow cloth, paper spine label; spine ends and lower corners slightly frayed. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., (1929). First edition. Internally fine, a very good copy.<br/><br/>

Faber and Faber, 1929. a clean tidy copy of this scarce book. lacks free front endpaper and half-title.. Revised Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Octavo.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1929. Book. See Description. Original Black Cloth. Revised Edition. 7 1/2" x 5". 148 pages. '...easily the best anti-war book written in English... recounts the nine days which he spent on 'The Wet Flanders Plain' when he revisited France as what he calls 'soldat retourne'... Through his ghostly eyes he sees the waste, the wickedness, the folly, in blessed proportion.' From Mr. Humbert Wolfe's review in The Observer, quoted on the dw. Hb in dw, formerly a very good copy which has sadly suffered from storage in a damp place, but is now dry and free from any aroma due to damp. However, the damp has resulted in the rear endpaper becoming completely detached; it is undamaged and could be simply re-glued to the inside of the rear board. The front endpaper is partially detached from the edges, and again could be re-glued. The black cloth binding is fairly uniformly lightened from the damp; very slight fraying at the top of the spine, at… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1929]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Extremely scarce in jacket.

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1929. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A sombre piece written about the author's experiences during the First World War, ten years on after his return to visit the battlefield. This work was written after the author had returned to the Western Front in order to find some closure after the trauma of battle.Henry Williamson (1895-1977) was an English author, best known for his work 'Tarka the Otter'. A great deal of his work concerned wildlife; however, a number of his earlier works deal with his time spent as a rifleman during the First World War. After the war, he believed that it had been futile and caused by greed, and strongly believed that Germany and Britain should never go to war again. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with a small chip to both the head and tail of the spine, which is a little cocked. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

Faber, London, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First trade edition (following a limited edition of 400 copies issued by Beaumont the previous year; this Faber issue very slightly revised). 8vo. 147pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust marked and the endpapers very lightly browned. A trace of miscellaneous staining to occasional leaf margins. Very good in tanned, edgeworn and internally repaired dust wrapper with a small area of loss from the head of the spine panel (impacting 'The'). 2990 copies were printed. A fusion of Williamson's two post-war visits to the Western Front battlefields, the first in 1925 and again in 1927, arranged in a loose diary format and merging his recollections with the contemporary scene..

New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1929 1st US edition. Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. Half bound in black and yellow cloth. Paper title label to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; some minor rubbing to ends of spine, Not clipped. In protective sleeve. With loose publishers promo slip with review by Frank Swinnerton.) Neat inscription to front endpaper “Mordon coon, 1932.” Else a very clean and tight copy. 122pp. The author’s account of his return to the battlefields of Ypres, Passchendaele and the Somme. New edition coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the author’s death, contains new material and an introduction by his son.

Dutton, 1929., 1929. 1st ed. 122p. Original Black & yellow cloth with paper title label. Account of a post-war journey back to the battlefields where the novelist had served as an officer in the MGC. Very Good Copy. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Book.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1929. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 122 pages, first American Edition, light stain on rear board, rare edition of this special book..

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1929. Revised Edition, First Edition First Thus. Cloth Bound Boards. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1929 first edition of this revised edition. Size 12mo, 7.5" tall, 148 pages. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition good, a few light dots on the front cover, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, slight offsetting to end-papers other than this the contents are very clean. Dust jacket condition good, spine slightly sunned, folds rubbed, corners and spine ends chipped, not price clipped.

Norwich, Norfolk: Gliddon Books, 1987. xx, [2], 13-182pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the photographic dust wrapper. With eight photographic illustrations. A little spotting to the wrapper, otherwise clean. With the initials of Williamson's son Richard (RLCW) on the title page. From the family library of Henry Williamson. The Wet Flanders Plain records Williamson's two pilgrimages back to the north of France in the 1920s, after his experiences fighting on the Western Front. First published in June 1929. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition. Matthews A11 1897.. First… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1929. 1st American Edition. hardcover. 8vo; 1st American edition; DJ has some marginal chipping and toning, small stain near spine on front panel; boards have some faint foxing, esp front board; EPs and pastedowns with slight amt of foxing, EPs toned from DJ flaps; slight toning of pp, binding sound. Still a nice copy. 122 pp. ; Always Delivery Confirmation. 35 Years Fast Excellent Service. We Know How To Pack Books. .

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.

NY 1929 first edition. Dutton. Thin sm octavo. 122p. Near Fine. Lovely striking cover design of zigzag black and yellow shapes - color very bright. DJ is also yellow and black in striking design wherein a line of marching bayonetted guns look almost exactly like piano keys. DJ is Good plus with top spine end worn down one quarter-inch; light toning to spine and slight overall wear. No tears on dj. This original first edition dj is hard to find. .