Fraser Douglas C (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in publisher's teal cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Trivial soiling to the edges of the text block. Ownership signature on the front free endpaper. In a very good unclipped dust jacket showing some light handling. 8vo. Pp. [6] 7-164.…

New Binders Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 188pp, map, b/w photographic plates, new binders cloth, new endpapers, V.G. *Much on Nigerian Life and Big Game Hunting in the early days.

Condition: ex-library copy w/library markings, label & pocket. Light wear & rubbing to binding, else in very good condition. Illustrated by B&W illustrations; map. 1st edition. Binding is cloth.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Near Fine. Binding tight; interior clean other than previous owner's name upper corner ffep. Dedication in sticker form on title page. White wraps. A guide to practical geophysics to aid geologists more intelligently using geophysics in their exploration and endeavors. 570pp., including index. Priority/international shipping will cost quite a bit extra as this is a thick and tall book.…

1st Edition. Hb original green cloth binding x,188pp frontisplate , folding map and illustrations Light rubbing to boards o/w A Vg copy.

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (faint spotting on page edges - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 164, illus with b&w plates and drawings in text (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped But Crossed Out Dust Jacket Tiny Tear Top Back, Tiny Damp Stain Spine Bottom. B/W Frontis Photograph Of Dougals. Index Of First Lines. 164 Pgs. Rare Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A charming early edition of a wry memoir from a war poet considered to be a great loss to literature, with an introduction by novelist Lawrence Durrell. A charming early edition of Alamein to Zem Zem, a wry memoir from the Western Desert Campaign, written by war poet and soldier Keith Douglas, with an introduction by British poet and author Lawrence Durrell, and edited by John Waller, G.S. Fraser, and J.C. Hall. Published by Faber and Faber in 1966, first published in 1946.In the publisher's original navy blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Contains a frontispiece, and in-text illustrations.An intriguing writer, rather than his memoir being sentimental like many other war poets, Douglas writes with a candid observation that critics have claimed as being cold while admirers consider it refreshing. Killed during the 1944 Invasion of Normandy, many consider Douglas to have been a great loss to literature. In the publisher's original navy blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with a couple of small faint marks to spine. Minor knocks to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Dust wrapper is bright and clean with minimal edgewear. Very minor printing marks to rear flyleaf joint. End papers are bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Various (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped Dust Jacket, Has Minor Edge Wear Top And Bottom Of Spine. No Markings, 153 Pgs Illustrated.A Fine Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Chilmark Press, New York. 1966. 152 pgs. Illustrated. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Few records of war are a lucid, vivid and sensitively written as Keith Douglas' "Alamein to Zem Zem". The author himself was a man of great poetic gifts who had established himself as a leading light in the Oxford literary circles, tutored by no less a person than First World War veteran and acclaimed poet Edmund Blunden. A talent that did not outlast the war, killed in action in Normandy 1944, but his lasting legacy is contained in this exceptional book. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. Clipped DJ in archival cover.

A pair of first editions in very good condition. Alamein to Zem Zem, Editions Poetry London:London, 1946. Strong card boards with orange cloth to spine. Small paper cutting of a review cellotaped to front pastedown; neat previous ownership inscription to front free; text block age toned as expected throughout; clean and unmarked. Alamein to Zem Zem, Faber and Faber: London, 1946. Blue cloth boards near fine; text block clean, crisp and unmarked. Original near very good clipped jacket just a little bumped to top and tail, age toned to lower and inside edges. With author's own line drawings and and an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.…