signed
1961
by Jones, David
1961. London: Faber & Faber, 1961.
8vo. Publisher's blue buckram, stamped in gilt and pale blue, top edge gilt. A fine copy.
§ Signed limited edition, #15 of 70 copies signed by Jones & T.S. Eliot. Eliot's writes in his introduction: "In Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and I still regard it, as a work of genius." A modernist epic of the First World War, grounded in Jones' experience in the trenches and his subsequent shellshock. W. H. Auden declared it "a masterpiece" in which Jones did "for the British and Germans what Homer did for the Greeks and the Trojans. (Inventory #: 126313)
8vo. Publisher's blue buckram, stamped in gilt and pale blue, top edge gilt. A fine copy.
§ Signed limited edition, #15 of 70 copies signed by Jones & T.S. Eliot. Eliot's writes in his introduction: "In Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and I still regard it, as a work of genius." A modernist epic of the First World War, grounded in Jones' experience in the trenches and his subsequent shellshock. W. H. Auden declared it "a masterpiece" in which Jones did "for the British and Germans what Homer did for the Greeks and the Trojans. (Inventory #: 126313)
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