Allison Drummond (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. The book is just good, boards have some shelf rubbing and a couple of scuffs on the back, gift inscription on the first endpaper, otherwise clean. Lacks the jacket. A photographic Record of 100 Years of Forest Life. ; 11.65 X 8.66 X 0.71 inches.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 127 pages. Price clipped. dj dented. on front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Large format book. Firmly bond & carefully read. Both book & jacket are in VG clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. The jacket has some edge wear & a couple of very small tears but minimal loss. Price clipped. Collection of well annotated photographs - mainly in b/w.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 127 pages illustrated/ A Near fine copy Perfect apart from an address label removed the endpaper. in a near fine price clipped dust jacket.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xvi,86pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, brown cloth, gilt titles, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 0704901072.

8vo. pp 47, [1]. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. From the Gary E Prouk collection of Fortune Press books. In D'Arch Smith (R.A. Caton & The Fortune Press): 06. Portrait and decorations by David Haughton. Very good plus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. David Haughton (illustrator). Black hardcover with title in faded gilt on spine. Condition: Very good. Binding sound. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. A label with a handwritten inscription in ink "With love from Drummond Allison" is fixed just below the portrait frontispiece of Allison by David Haughton (see image). Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with sunning to edges and a couple of small tears. 48pp. b/w frontispiece portrait and decorations within the book are by David Haughton (1924-1991). Drummond Allison (1921-1943) was an English war poet, killed in action in Garigliano, Italy, and now buried there in the Minturno war cemetery. Allison died in 1943 and the book was published in 1944, so presumably the label with the handwritten note and signature fixed under the frontispiece was written prior to his death. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Brand New. New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

Hardback, 8 x 6 inches. Light brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. Patterned endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor slight fading on spine, a couple of minor handling marks to cloth, else clean and smart. Bookplate to endpaper ?Roger Neville Ross Peers.? Pages all very clean and tight throughout. Numbered on rear of title page. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 86pp.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Oxford: Whiteknights Press, 1978. First thus and limited edition, this being copy #14 of 200 printed. Edited by Michael Sharp. Octavo, russet cloth with gilt. 86 pp. Publisher's Editorial Errata slip laid in. Fine, pristine. Tiny, faintly penciled original owner's name at top right of ffep, otherwise this one is as it came from the publisher. Wartime poetry from one who had no time to write any other; Allison, an intelligence officer who served in North Africa and Italy in WWII, was killed in action fighting at the Garigliano River in December of 1943 - at the age of 22. An example of what comes, during war, from a talent which doesn't want to be at war but expresses that somewhat obliquely, and, for that, possibly more trenchantly. L85.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 21 x 15 cm. 47 pp. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear and toning to extremes. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine: crisp and clean. Clean throughout with entirely form binding. Offset pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 8vo. limited edition 300 copies, 213 pp. ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1994, complements slip from editor, some light foxing to foredges, very good in original red cloth gilt, and dustwrapper with some very light shelfwear and some minor foxing on the inside of wrapper, title faintly sunned, very good. see photos of this copy supplied. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Black Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. David Haughton (illustrator). First Edition. 48pp. Small name ticket and four glue spots on ffep with faint ghosts on front pastedown. Dust jacket very slightly rubbed and sunned at spine. Smart copy of a scarce title still more so in dust jacket. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Haughton, David (illustrator). First Edition, First Issue. 48 pp., First edition, first issue. Signed label pasted to the half title. Black cloth binding with some marks and bumping to the boards and some darkening to the edges of the leaves, other wise clean. Portrait and decorations by David Haughton. Drummond Allison was a war poet of the second world war with this collection of his works published a year after his death at Monte Cassino. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Black buckram lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on laid paper. The tip of one corner gently knocked and with a short mark to the buckram at the upper board. Several tiny pinpricks of spotting to the upper margin of the title leaf. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded and rubbed with a tiny sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel. Fifty-one poems, including many with a Secord World War theme. The author's first book, published posthumously following his death in action in Italy in December 1943. Uncommon, and more so with the dust wrapper.

Hardback. Limited Edition. This book of poems is published privately in an original run of 300. book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A very smart limited edition of this collection of poetry from English war poet John Drummond Allison. Limited to three hundred copies. Very scarce work. A collection of poetry from John Drummond Allison, an English war poet of the Second World War. With poems organised into each year of his service as an Intelligence Officer in the East Surrey Regiment, until his death in action on the Garigliano in Italy in 1943. Edited and introduced by Stephen Benson, a British lecturer in contemporary British literature. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. book.

First edition. Original black cloth, spine lettering dull as always; fine, basically. With an 8-line autograph working draft, extensively re-written, of Barker's "Love Poem VIII" written in pencil on the front endpaper, dated 1946. Drummond Allison (1921- 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of World War II. He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where he was killed in action fighting on the Garigliano.