Drummond Allison (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. The book is just good, boards have some shelf rubbing and a couple of scuffs on the back, gift inscription on the first endpaper, otherwise clean. Lacks the jacket. A photographic Record of 100 Years of Forest Life. ; 11.65 X 8.66 X 0.71 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Large format book. Firmly bond & carefully read. Both book & jacket are in VG clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. The jacket has some edge wear & a couple of very small tears but minimal loss. Price clipped. Collection of well annotated photographs - mainly in b/w.…

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 127 pages illustrated/ A Near fine copy Perfect apart from an address label removed the endpaper. in a near fine price clipped dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. 5 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Limited copy of 22 of only 200 copies. Physical description; xvii, 86 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Limited edition of 200 copies. Subjects; English poetry. Bulldog poet. Literature. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 127 pages. Price clipped. dj dented. on front.1979. First Edition. 127 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth boards. c loth boards with gilt lettering. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white and co lour plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issu es present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning a nd thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear wit h light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt letteri ng is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears an d chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Limited copy of 22 of only 200 copies. Physical description; xvii, 86 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Limited edition of 200 copies. Subjects; English poetry. Bulldog poet. Literature. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xvi,86pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, brown cloth, gilt titles, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 0704901072.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 200 numbered copies. 8vo. Brown cloth gilt (issued without jacket). xviii, 86pp. Spotted to the edges (primarily the head edge) and internally to a moderate degree, the spine perhaps a touch faded, but about Very Good overall. Although the errata slip is loosely inserted, its corrections have also been applied by hand.…

hardcover. Condition: Gut. 128 Seiten; 9780950278636.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 300 copies - this one inscribed by the editor on the title page to an un-named recipient, dated the year of publication, and with an accompanying handwritten letter laid-in. 8vo. 213pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with eleven photographs. A fine copy in very slightly toned dust wrapper, with some fading to the red spine panel lettering. One hundred and nineteen poems, nearly fifty of them hitherto unprinted, plus in tribute poems by Sidney Keyes, Robert Conquest and John Lehmann, and three critical appreciations. John Drummond Allison was killed in action in Italy in December 1943, shortly after having checked the proofs for his first volume of verse, 'The Yellow Night', posthumously issued by the Fortune Press in 1944. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Black Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 48pp. Small name ticket and four glue spots on ffep with faint ghosts on front pastedown. Dust jacket very slightly rubbed and sunned at spine. Smart copy of a scarce title still more so in dust jacket. David Haughton (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Black hardcover with title in faded gilt on spine. Condition: Very good. Binding sound. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. A label with a handwritten inscription in ink "With love from Drummond Allison" is fixed just below the portrait frontispiece of Allison by David Haughton (see image). Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with sunning to edges and a couple of small tears. 48pp. b/w frontispiece portrait and decorations within the book are by David Haughton (1924-1991). Drummond Allison (1921-1943) was an English war poet, killed in action in Garigliano, Italy, and now buried there in the Minturno war cemetery. Allison died in 1943 and the book was published in 1944, so presumably the label with the handwritten note and signature fixed under the frontispiece was written prior to his death. David Haughton (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Oxford: Whiteknights Press, 1978. First thus and limited edition, this being copy #14 of 200 printed. Edited by Michael Sharp. Octavo, russet cloth with gilt. 86 pp. Publisher's Editorial Errata slip laid in. Fine, pristine. Tiny, faintly penciled original owner's name at top right of ffep, otherwise this one is as it came from the publisher. Wartime poetry from one who had no time to write any other; Allison, an intelligence officer who served in North Africa and Italy in WWII, was killed in action fighting at the Garigliano River in December of 1943 - at the age of 22. An example of what comes, during war, from a talent which doesn't want to be at war but expresses that somewhat obliquely, and, for that, possibly more trenchantly. L85.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 21 x 15 cm. 47 pp. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear and toning to extremes. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine: crisp and clean. Clean throughout with entirely form binding. Offset pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine with no inscriptions or writing; appears unread. Pristine red covers with a near fine dust jacket in mylar.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 8vo. limited edition 300 copies, 213 pp. ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1994, complements slip from editor, some light foxing to foredges, very good in original red cloth gilt, and dustwrapper with some very light shelfwear and some minor foxing on the inside of wrapper, title faintly sunned, very good. see photos of this copy supplied. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Issue. 48 pp., First edition, first issue. Signed label pasted to the half title. Black cloth binding with some marks and bumping to the boards and some darkening to the edges of the leaves, other wise clean. Portrait and decorations by David Haughton. Drummond Allison was a war poet of the second world war with this collection of his works published a year after his death at Monte Cassino. 8vo. Haughton, David (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A scarce first edition of this varied modern collection of poetry. A scarce first edition. A collection of poetry by a variety of artists. Bound in publisher'soriginal red paper wraps. Featuring the work of soldier poet Keith Douglas, Gordon Swaine, translator and journalist Michael Meyer, Roy Porter and WWII poet Drummond Allison. Bound in original paper wraps. Externally, generally smart. Moderate rubbing to extremities. Moderate loss to head. Small loss to tail and front joint. Significant ink stain to rear cover. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally mildly age toned, and otherwise bright and clean. Small ink stain to text block top edge. Very Good. None (illustrator). book. …

Hardback. Limited Edition. This book of poems is published privately in an original run of 300. book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A very smart limited edition of this collection of poetry from English war poet John Drummond Allison. Limited to three hundred copies. Very scarce work. A collection of poetry from John Drummond Allison, an English war poet of the Second World War. With poems organised into each year of his service as an Intelligence Officer in the East Surrey Regiment, until his death in action on the Garigliano in Italy in 1943. Edited and introduced by Stephen Benson, a British lecturer in contemporary British literature. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

First edition. Original black cloth, spine lettering dull as always; fine, basically. With an 8-line autograph working draft, extensively re-written, of Barker's "Love Poem VIII" written in pencil on the front endpaper, dated 1946. Drummond Allison (1921- 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of World War II. He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where he was killed in action fighting on the Garigliano.…