Published by Faber and Faber, 2009
ISBN 10: 0571255221 ISBN 13: 9780571255221
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
Soft Cover. Condition: new.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Boards rubbed and soiled. Missing dust jacket. Bookplate and ink inscription on front endpapers.
Published by New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929
Seller: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 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.
Published by Gliddon Books, 1987
ISBN 10: 0947893040 ISBN 13: 9780947893040
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.
Published by Dutton, New York, 1929
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 12mo. 122 pp. Cloth binding, printed spine label, surface wear, else good copy. (86767).
Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1929
Seller: Solvang Book Company, Lompoc, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Light soil to boards. Lower corners rubbed, head and foot of spine frayed. Newsprint book review hand dated 2/13/30 mounted on rear paste-down with offset to adjacent free end-paper. Corner torn off adjacent fly leaf. Number inked to front paste-down. Binding solid.
Published by Faber & Faber Limited, London, United Kingdom, 1929
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. British revised edition, first printing, 1929. First thus. No jacket. Black boards with gold lettering to spine are only good with (quite) severe patchy fading, a few small marks, crease to spine (book has been read), a hint of pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small bump/rub to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Previous owner's name in pen to front end-paper. Pages little tanned. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to pages. Inside boards/end-papers bit tanned. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Published by Dutton, New York, 1929
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: very good. First. 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.
Published by London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1929
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. "The Revised Edition Of 'The Wet Flanders Plain' Was First Published In MCMXXIX" stated. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Near fine hardback. No dust jacket. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.
Published by Faber and Faber, 1929
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. a clean tidy copy of this scarce book. lacks free front endpaper and half-title. Size: Octavo 0.0.
Published by Faber & Faber, 1929
Seller: Buckle's Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition of revised edition hardback. No dustjacket, black boards with gilt title to spine. Slight wear to edges and previous owners bookplate inside front board otherwise internally clean. Very good condition.
Published by Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1929
Seller: Trinders' Fine Tools, Clare, Sudbury, United Kingdom
Original Black Cloth. Condition: See Description. Dust Jacket Condition: See Description. Revised Edition. 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 the bottom of the spine there is a 1 inch tear; at three points on the edges of the boards, each about ¼" long, the cloth has been worn through to the board below, probably from contact with a shelf. The dw is largely complete but has a 2" right-angle tear from the bottom of the spine; two separate areas approximately 3/8" square - but ragged - have been lost on the back of the dw at the lower edge; other areas show more minor losses or surface loss or thinning of the paper. No attempt has been made to repair the condition of book or dw, and careful treatment could significantly improve this book's appearance. Internally the condition is very good.
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd London 1st Trade Edition, 1929
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Hb Original Black Cloth 148pp Authors memoirs of service in the Ypres Sailent A Vg Copy.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co. [1929], New York, 1929
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Extremely scarce in jacket.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). 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. book.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1929
Seller: Good Old Books, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. 122 pages, first American Edition, light stain on rear board, rare edition of this special book.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 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.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co Inc, New York, 1929
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good for Age. First Edition. Dj has some wear especially on the edges. There is also wear on the spine. There is also edge wear on the book, as well as minor frayin on the top cover near spine. All text blocks have deckled edges, and the top text block has some stains. There is a stamp that says "The Doorway Bookshop Minneapolis" on the BEP. Previous owner name and address in ink on FEP. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by NY: Dutton, 1929
Seller: Shirley K. Mapes, Books, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. lst edition stated. Black and yellow cloth cover with yellow lettering on spine. Very good condition. Spine edges and corners lightly rubbed; side edge rims have series of small worn-to-board areas; light overall soil. Lacks a dust jacket.
Published by Gliddon Books, 1987
ISBN 10: 0947893229 ISBN 13: 9780947893224
Seller: Penn and Ink Used and Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-library 1st edition 1929 E.P. Dutton, solid, clean, light wear to library rebind binding.
Published by Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1929
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Revised Edition, First Edition. 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.
Published by Gliddon Books, Norwich, Norfolk, 1987
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
First Gliddon Books edition. 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. Size: 8vo.
Published by Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1929
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Published: 1929. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Beige DJ with red and black titles and flower design to front over black cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Light wear to sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Lightly rubbed cloth with minor marks. Tightly bound with lightly shadowed intact endpapers and strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Fair: Light wear, creasing and chipping to upper and lower edges. Missing upper 1cm of upper spine end. 5cm tear to lower rear spine edge. Neat repair to upper spine verso. Unclipped. In protective sleeve Pages 147. Size: 19.5cm by 12.5cm.
Published by New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1929 1st US edition, 1929
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
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.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1929
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st American Edition. 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.
Published by The Beaumont Press [1929], London, 1929
Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Limited Edition. 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.
Publication Date: 1929
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. 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.
Published by The Beaumont Press, 1929
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Some browning to decorated boards and brown spine, the latter with faded gilt lettering. Acetate jacket has a little loss around top of spine and a 1 cm tear at base. Internally book plate on front paste down. Number 219 of 240 copies on hand made paper. All clean and tight.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, one of 320 numbered copies (from a total edition of 400), printed on handmade paper (this being #300). 8vo. 95pp. Quarter-bound paper-covered fawn cloth featuring a striking design by Randolph Schwabe who also contributes a title-page illustration. Top edge lightly dust marked, endpapers lightly browned and with just a trace of the customary darkening to the backstrip. A virtually fine copy of a handsome production. No dust wrapper called for. 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.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. [1929], revised edition, 147pp, black boards, gilt titles to spine, clipped dustwrapper, original wrap around band. The covers and contents are in very good condition. The price clipped dustwrapper is also in very good condition with a touch of edge wear to the top of the spine, which is a little browned (less so under the band). The Wet Flanders Plain is a simple, but powerful, tale relating Henry Williamson's thoughts on his return to the battlefields of the First World War on two occasions: the first with his wife on their honeymoon in May 1925 and the second with his brother-in-law, William (Bill) Busby, in June 1927. See my other listings for more Henry Williamson titles.