Only 70 copies issued

Jones, David & Eliot, T.S. (Intro) ~ In Parenthesis : seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu

Faber & Faber Ltd, London : 1961

The sole UK printing of this special limited edition published by Faber & Faber Ltd, London in 1961. Number '5'of only 70 copies issued, signed by both the author and T. S. Eliot to the limitation page. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Octavo. Two illustrated plates and a map plate by David Jones. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in blind and gilt, top edge gilt. No loss or rubbing of the gilt to the spine. With the original acetate WRAPPER which is complete and is in near fine condition. A hint of toning to the fore-edge. A sharp copy. 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).

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine