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Nangle Rare Books, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Seller rating 2 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since November 23, 2009
First Edition. Double page frontispiece. Agenda Editions, 1981. Red cloth. A trifle damp spotted o/w very good indeed. Seller Inventory # ABE-1717246090634
Title: The Roman Quarry
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Soft cover book (283 pages) illustrated with b/w reproductions of poets wrtings.Moderate rubbing/scuffing on covers with tips on front cover creased - small, light blemish bottom edge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-B-Bottom-Up-L) rareviewbooks. Seller Inventory # RVB05122601
Seller: Oakholm Books, Aberfeldy, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Two very small nicks to clear jacket; very minor marks to page edges, spine not as new (book has been read) but no damage. Seller Inventory # 001017
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. 6 x 9 in. Paper wraps. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, minimal shelf wear. BInding tight, text spotless. Original mylar wrapper is FAIR ; open tears at upper and lower front, rubbed. Poet. RGR. Seller Inventory # 54359
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition. Wrappered issue (simultaneous with the cloth). Octavo; printed wrappers; xxviii, 283pp; facsimiles. Faint foxing to wrappers, with small nick to fore edge of front cover; internally clean, tight and unmarked - Very Good. Posthumous edition of Jones' major, life-long work, left uncompleted upon his death in 1971. All editions are uncommon. Seller Inventory # 35212
Seller: Solr Books, Lincolnwood, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition. Seller Inventory # BCV.0935296247.G
Seller: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover and creases on spine. 284 pages. Posthumous collection of prose and poetry edited by Harman Grisewood and Rene Hague from manuscripts left at Jones's death, extending the work of The Anathemata through sequences drawing on Roman Britain, Celtic myth, and Catholic liturgy. Keywords: Roman Legionary, The Anathemata, Grail Mass, Preseli Hills, Vercovicium, Sleeping Lord, Welsh Latin, Celtic Britain, In Parenthesis, Balaam's Ass, Hadrians Wall, Catholic Liturgy. Seller Inventory # 180205
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition, wrappered issue. Octavo. 282 [1] pp. Illustrated with several facsimiles. Trifle worn, very near fine in printed wrappers and very good or better unprinted acetate dust jacket with modest rubbing and two tiny chips at the crown. Seller Inventory # 537586
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition, wrappered issue. Edited by Harman Grisewood and René Hague. 282 [1] pp. Illustrated with several facsimiles. Light toning at the edge of endpapers, near fine in a fine unprinted acetate dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 598887
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the original plain acetate dustwrapper. With a black and white frontispiece and six plates throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth a touch faded to the spine. The contentsare clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original acetate dustwrapper, which has a chip with loss at the head of the spine. A collection of 10 short writings by modernist poet David Jones (1895-1974), compiled and published posthumously by the editors Harman Grisewood and René Hague (who also passed away pre-publication). The book is divided into four parts and supplemented with additional commentary by Hague towards the rear. The fourth and final section, 'The Book of Balaam's Ass', was an abandoned experimental project Jones had worked on before his landmark epic poem 'The Anathemata' (1952). Fragments of the text first appeared in print in 'The Sleeping Lord' (1974), the last of Jones' works released during his lifetime. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Seller Inventory # 30140
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, double-spread frontispiece of Jones manuscript, further facsimile passages as illustration to the text, title-page printed in black and red, pp. xxviii, 283, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, faintest of spotting to top edge, to free endpapers also, original glassine jacket a little torn, the book itself near fine. A piece of 'literary archaeology' - material at various stages of completion, and interconnected in various ways, mined from Jones's mass of papers posthumously by the industrious editors. Seller Inventory # 72405
Quantity: 1 available