The Anathemata - fragments of an attempted writing.
by JONES, David
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- first
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, London., 1952. First edition. Octavo. 243 pages. Eight black and white plates and one red, black and white plate by the author. The entire text, including the 35-page Preface, attended with copious footnotes by the author.On the front free endpaper is the ownership signature, dated January 1955, of Professor Gwyn Williams, novelist, poet and translator, author of Introduction to Welsh Poetry (Faber, 1953). Tipped onto the rear pastedown are two pages (one large sheet, folded) containing a total of 32 corrections in the author's hand. These end with his comment, ''This is by no means a full list but the more irritating ones only, or perhaps those that I have so far noticed as mattering. David J.''Fore-edge very slightly spotted. Very good in good dustwrapper stained at the spine and with a few chips.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JONESDAV015726
- Title
- The Anathemata - fragments of an attempted writing.
- Author
- JONES, David
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, London.
- Date Published
- 1952
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