Where Nothing Sleeps: Complete Short Stories (The) Volumes I & II RARE SLIPCASED Set (2 Books) UK LIMITED FIRST EDITION
Language: English
Published by Tartarus Press, 2005
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You are purchasing a RARE SLIPCASE SET of TWO BOOKS. The SET is comprised of: Where Nothing Sleeps: Complete Short Stories (The) (and Other Related Works), Volume One and Volume Two. Tartarus Press. Coverley House, Carlton, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 4AY, United Kingdom, 2005. VOLUME ONE. Hardcover. Sewn Binding. pp 380+xvii. UK FIRST EDITION. AS NEW and an UNREAD copy. One of 500 LIMITED EDITION copies. Full Print Run Limited to 500 copies. Presented in a yellow cloth hard Slipcase stamped in copper. SLIPCASED EDITION OUT OF PRINT. Edited and Preface by James Methuen-Campbell. Printed lithographically on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with copper silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands and d/w. Illustrated. Fine book in Fine dust jacket and Fine Slipcase. Please see the photographs attached to my listing to verify the condition of this edition. VOLUME TWO. Hardcover. Sewn Binding. pp 390. UK FIRST EDITION. AS NEW and an UNREAD copy. One of 500 LIMITED EDITION copies. Full Print Run Limited to 500 copies. Presented in a yellow cloth hard Slipcase stamped in copper. SLIPCASED EDITION OUT OF PRINT. Edited and Preface by James Methuen-Campbell. Printed lithographically on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with copper silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands and d/w. Illustrated. Fine book in Fine dust jacket and Fine Slipcase. Please see the photographs attached to my listing to verify the condition of this edition. Where Nothing Sleeps: Complete Short Stories (The) (and Other Related Works), Volume One and Volume Two Synopsis: CONTENTS: VOLUME ONE: 'Preface' by James Methuen-Campbell, 'I Can Remember', 'Narcissus Bay', 'At Sea', 'The Happiest Time', 'The Coffin on the Hill', 'I First Began to Write', 'The Barn', 'The Trout Stream', 'Mr Clarke', 'Some Memories Evoked by Music', 'A Visit to my Bois Relations', 'A House Lost in the Darkness and Wintry Fields', 'At Sir Moorcalm Lalli's', 'The Packing-case House and the Thief', 'Mrs Hockey', 'A Child Meets Church and State and Poetry in Strange Places: Lady Astor', 'The Death of My Mother', 'The Big Field', 'An Afternoon with Jeanne', 'When I was Thirteen', 'An Old Boy Takes me Out at Repton', 'Ghosts', 'The Earth's Crust', 'The Youth Rang the Bell', 'An Encounter by the River', 'Back to Repton as an Old Boy', 'I Left my Grandfather's House', 'A Free Ride', 'When I was an Art Student', 'A Novel Fragment'. CONTENTS: VOLUME TWO: The Judas Tree', 'Strange Discoveries', 'In Brixham Harbour', 'A Party', 'Sickert at St Peter's', 'A Picture in the Snow', 'Evergreen Seaton-Leverett', 'A Fragment of a Life Story', 'Leaves from a Young Person's Notebook', 'Faces at the Stage Door', 'Wainwright Home', 'Fat Woman Sleeping in a Wood', 'Touchett's Party', 'The War Breaks Out', 'Velvet', 'The Fire in the Wood', 'A Dream of Vestals', 'Fear', 'Cupids from a Wedgwood Jar from a Bartolozzi Print from a Drawing by Lady Di Beauclerk', 'Memories of a Vanished Period', 'Man in a Garden', 'A Morning with the Versatile Peer, Lord Berners, in the "Ancient Seat of Learning" ', 'A Mews Flat in the Country', 'A Lunch Appointment', 'Reading my First Review-in Spring', 'Brave and Cruel', 'In the Vast House', 'John Trevor', 'Full Circle', 'Roger Saw the Man', 'The Cottage After Dark', 'Roger Lay on the Cliff', 'Weekend', 'Amy Lechworth', 'Lady Gertrude', 'Constance, Lady Willet', 'Anna Dillon', 'Alex Fairburn', 'The Hateful Word', 'The Diamond Badge', 'When I Lie Awake', 'In the Autumn Weather', 'The Secret Life', 'The Window', 'Two Cows', 'A Postscript', End-notes, Bibliography. REVIEWS: 'James Methuen-Campbell, the editor of this new and definitive collection of [Welch's] short stories and other writings, wrote a biography of Welch in 2002 which did much to establish his reputation as an artist.' Ian Irvine, Independent on Sunday 'Edited by Welch' Language: eng.…
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- Title
- Where Nothing Sleeps: Complete Short Stories (The) Volumes I & II RARE SLIPCASED Set (2 Books) UK LIMITED FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Welch, Denton
- Publisher
- Tartarus Press
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1872621945
- ISBN 13
- 9781872621944
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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