Parenthesis, Signed (10 results)

Paperback Good+. Oscar A. Galvan, Jr., illus. 8vo, 68, Author inscribed/signed on title page. Trade paperback. General wear.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Stapled chapbook. Shelf wear to corners edges & spine. Markings on rear cover appear to be indentations made by staples. Signed by author on Front cover. Signed by Author.

THE SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION. TWO VOLUMES, QUARTO, PARENTHESIS NO. 6 AUGUST 2001, HARDBACK WITH BLUE DUSTWRAPPER. IN A PATTERNED SEPARATE CASE, A SERIES OF PRINTS AND CARDS, EXAMPLES OF THE TERN PRESS, WILL CARTER, CHRIS DAUNT (SIGNED), THE LIBANUS PRESS, JOAN HASSALL AND OTHERS. BOTH CONTAINED IN A SLIPCASE. A FINE SET. VERY SCARCE.

Fourth impression hard back binding in publisher's original light sand cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered cream back over deep navy ground. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains frontispiece, (xxii), 224, (2) pp + map and one other plate. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper short closed tears to the spine ends and corners, tanning of the paper to the rear cover and down the spine, not price clipped, 25s. Dust wrapper protected. From the private library and estate of Edward Ardizzone and SIGNED by his second Child to the front free end paper 'Philip Ardizzone | 1965.' Member of the P.B.F.A. FIRST WORLD (Great) WAR.

Illustr, 11.5 x 8.75, cloth backed patterned boards, 64pp, a very nice copy of THE DELUXE EDITION in slipcase. WITH SUITE OF FINELY PRINTED EPHEMERA IN A PORTFOLIO: John Milton poem printed at the Arion Press; reproduction of a pyrography piece from Blue Pearl Press, numbered and signed by artist; broadside from Gospel of St. John, printed at The Hill Press; Dwiggins' What Type from Incline Pres; Ezra Pound Canto from The LaNana Press; Frank Ponzi wanted poster from Midnight Paper Sales, signed by S. Flutterhat; Lao Tzu broadside from The Petrarch Press; Censorship by Norman Rosenthal, with wood engraving by Michael McGarvey, numbered and signed by McGarvey; Robert Louis Stevenson's The Maker to Posterity, printed by Red Dragon Fly Press.

Ads, 11 x 8.5, patterned boards, 64 pp, a very nice copy of THE DELUXE EDITION in slipcase, with additional ephemera: wood engraving by John O'Connor printed at the Whittington Press; The Ballad of Rachel Corrie by Dale Jacobson printed at the Red Dragonfly Press; Letter to Earth by George Ella Lyon, signed by Lyon, printed at the October Press; an excerpt from Don Delillo's MAO II printed at the Fox Run Press; linocuts by Tara Bryan printed at Walking Bird Press; a small broadside honoring Virginia Woolf printed at the Lone Oak Press; The Bear Box by Carol J. Blinn, printed at the Warwick Press; Michael McGarvey wood engraving with quotation by Yoshida Kenko, printed at the Port Press, signed by McGarvey; page printed at Barbarian Press.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plate and full-page map (all original tissue guards present); original tan cloth, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED AND DATED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, AND ADDITIONAL SIGNATURE ON TITLE. THIS COPY IS PRESENTED BY JONES TO POLLY PEABODY ['Polly Peabody with love; signature; London 1 Jan. 1941'].

Illustr, 11.5 x 8.75, cloth backed patterned boards, 60 pp, a very nice copy of THE DELUXE EDITION in slipcase. WITH SUITE OF FINELY PRINTED EPHEMERA IN A PORTFOLIO: Inspirational quotation printed at Full Moon Press; typographic broadside printed at Brown Trout Press, with fishing fly, limited and signed by Paul Brown; quotation from Horace printed at Tryst Press, limited and numbered; cautionary tale printed at Sherwin Beach Press; Greek alphabet display printed at Editions Koch; two poems by William Blake printed at Incline Press; wood engraving by David Moyer, lettered and signed by Moyer; prospectus for Alden Nowlan & Illness from Frog Hollow Press, with signed wood engraving by Wesley Bates; excerpt from The Ghost of Purple by Nabokov, printed at Littoral Press; Thoreau quotation and engraving of toad from The Lone Oak Press; Edward Gibbon quotation printed by The Aliquando Press; Emily Dickinson quote printed by Cotton Socks Press, limited, numbered and signed by Andrea Taylor; typographic broadside from Loveletter Press, numbered and signed by David Wolske.

First edition, signed by the poet beneath the frontispiece. Written after Jones's breakdown from shell-shock in 1932, In Parenthesis makes vivid the physicality and trauma of his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, as a private in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the same unit as Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. The book ends with the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, in which the three poets fought. Writing the jacket blurb, T. S. Eliot declared the work "one of the strangest, most sombre and most exciting books that we have published. It is not a 'war book' so much as a distillation of the essence of war books, and in particular it is the chanson de gestes of the Cockney and the Welsh and the Welsh Cockey in the Great War, men and ghosts, and behind them the shadows of all their ancestors who fought and toiled and died in the Britain of the Celt and the Saxon." Eliot was the first to call the work an "early epic"; Jones's biographer Thomas Dilworth later described it as "the only modern epic poem in English" (p. 200). It won Jones the Hawthornden Prize in 1938; a typescript copy of his acceptance speech is loosely inserted. Thomas Dilworth, David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet, 2017. Octavo. Two illustrated plates (one as frontispiece) after etchings by Jones, and a map plate, each with tissue guard. Original beige cloth, spine lettered in grey and in relief on grey ground framed in gilt. With dust jacket. Small bumps to cloth, spots of foxing to endpapers; jacket unclipped, slightly tall as issued, nicks and short closed tears to extremities as expected, minimally rubbed: a near-fine copy in near-fine jacket.

Signed limited edition, number 39 of 70 copies, signed by the author and T. S. Eliot. David Jones's epic poetic memoir, tackling the trauma of his trench experiences in the First World War after his breakdown from shell-shock in 1932, was first published in 1937. In Parenthesis won David Jones the Hawthornden Prize and the praise of such writers as W. H. Auden, who considered it "a masterpiece" in which Jones did "for the British and Germans what Homer did for the Greeks and the Trojans". In his introduction, first published in the present volume, Eliot stated that he was "proud to share the responsibility" of originally publishing the "work of literary art which uses the language in a new way or for a new purpose". Eliot notes "I still regard it. as a work of genius". Gallup AB85(a). Octavo. Two illustrated plates and a map plate by David Jones. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in blind and gilt, top edge gilt. With acetate dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase with illustrative panels. Minor foxing to fore-edge; a fine and notably fresh copy.