Green Tree Preface Rowse Postscript by Lewis Alun (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, first edition, pp,141, drawings by John Petts, black titled orange cloth, pictorial clipped dust-jacket, a little mild foxing.

FIRST EDITION THUS. 8vo. 8 x 5.5 inches. 141 + [1] + [2] pp. publisher's advertisements and colophon. Bound in original buff cloth, with green titles, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has sunned spine. Spine lightly sunned and browning of endpapers; otherwise a very good clean copy. loosely inset: TLS Review, A Lost Soldier-Poet, 24 June 1949. illustrated by portrait frontispiece and by text figures, including chapter headings. Decorated by half title and title page vignettes. Alun Lewis (1915-44) was a Welsh poet, regarded as one of the best known English language poets of the Second World War. The Letters, written to his wife and parents, describe his war service and were first published as Letters from India in 1946. The six uncollected short stories first appeared in a several literary journals. His work is evaluated in the Preface by A. L Rowse (1903-97), Cornish poet, historian and biographer. The Postscript with a biographical account of the poet, is by Gwyn Jones (1907-99), Welsh novelist, and the Sonnet by Welsh poet and translator, Vernon Watkins (1906-67). The illustrations are by John Petts (1914-91), London born Welsh artist. WW2 LETTERS CORRESPONDENCE LIT. FICTION WW2 WW2.

Hardback, 14x20cm, 141pp. Good condition (worn, faded edges; slightly cocked spine; foxed edges and endpapers) in fair dustwrapper (general wear; waterstained spine; numerous 0.5-1cm tears with some associated creases and loss).

8vo, hardback, prelims + 141pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (price clipped, price sticker at lower front flap, front and rear flaps have tape remnants and the front flap has some minor loss of text where tape has been carelessly removed, spine faded, several small closed tears). Tan cloth with green upper edges. Lightly bumped, page edges a little age-toned. Pencilled lines on some pages in the margins. Pictures available on request. '. includes a selection of the letters, mostly from India, written to his family and six uncollected short stories.'.

Hardback, 8vo, 141pp. Very good condition (light wear; a little faded at edges; pages age-toned) in very good dustwrapper (light wear; 1cm closed tear at head of spine; price-clipped).

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, rust brown cloth titled in green on the spine, in a dust wrapper. The rear panel of the dust jacket is lightly soiled & slightly darkened around the edges & the dust jacket spine is somewhat faded. 141 & [2] pages. Illustrated in black & white with drawings by John Petts, including a portrait frontispiece. A very good, very attractive copy. First edition.

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait of the author by John Petts, with the latter's drawings throughout, pp. 141, [1], crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in green, top edge green, dustjacket with a vivid design by John Petts, perhaps a touch of fading to some of the lettering on backstrip panel, near fine. His letters to his family from India, along with six uncollected short stories.