Green Tree by Lewis Alun Petts John (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Petts art (illustrator). 1st Edition. Green-stamped slightly soiled bittersweet cloth. Inked names verso front cover, "1948" inked on title pg. Preface: A.L. Rowse. Postscript: Gwyn Jones. Sonnet by Vernon Watkins. Solid. No dust jacket. 26118 shelf 141 p. Book.

Cloth. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: About VG. John Petts (illustrator). First Edition. Letters home from India by the author , plus, six of his short stories. 141pp, drawings by John Petts. Preface by A. L. Rowse. Postscript by Gwyn Jones. Sonnet by Vernon Watkins. Bright, clean copy with a sound binding. No wear to cloth. Small gift inscription on ffep. Dustjacket is similar with a little edge wear. Weight, 265g. Size: 8" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Petts, John (illustrator). Hardcover. With a preface by A.L. Rowse. Postscript by Gwyn Jones. Sonnet by Vernon Watkins. Drawings by John Petts. Tanned and somewhat edge-worn dust jacket with a few creases, nicks and marks. Minor fading and one or two marks on boards. Hardcover spine is slightly cocked. Hardcover spine ends are a little faded and slightly bumped. Minor wear on hardcover leading corners. Minor fading on endpapers. Binding is sound, and the contents are clear. AF. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Illustrated with Drawings by John Petts (illustrator). 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. Paypal accepted. All bookss ent tracked. With a preface by A L Rowse. A postcript by Gwyn Jones and a sonnet by Vernon Watkins. Letters and short stories by the Welsh author killed in the Second World War. Some spotting to end papers.

Orange hardback board cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (More images available on request). VG : in very good condition with marked dust jacket in clear protective wrap. Light foxing to endpapers and paste downs. Pages age-toned. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 144pp. A collection of letters by the Welsh war poet Alun Lewis and 6 uncollected short stories.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. John Petts (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this collection of letters by the Welsh war poet Alun Lewis in the original dust wrapper. First edition of In the Green Tree in the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper.A collection of letters by the Welsh war poet Alun Lewis. After his death in 1944, many of his poems and letters were published. This collection includes mostly letters from Lewis's time in India written to his family and friends, and includes six uncollected short stories.With a preface by A. L. Rowse, a postscript by Gwyn Jones, and a Sonnet by Vernon Watkins. With illustrations throughout the text by John Petts. In the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. There is some light spotting to the pastedowns and endpapers. The dust wrapper is slightly age toned with a few light creases. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

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.