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War letters of fallen englishmen
by HOUSMAN, Laurene (ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930. 318pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards, spine lettered gilt. With the original cream dustwrapper lettered black. Boards bright, with minor bumping to corners and ends with the spine a trifle cocked. Wrapper marked and toned, spine significantly sunned with losses to both ends, with the corresponding fading to the cloth. Endpapers toned, otherwise bright and clean throughout save light pencil markings on page 143. Laurence Housman (1865-1959) was a prolific writer, poet and illustrator whose career spanned from the Edwardian Era to the middle of the twentieth century. He was an active Suffragette, Humanist, and member of the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society dedicated to the ascetic homosexual ethos. One of only three works edited by Housman, the best-known being the universally panned A.E.H.: some poems, some letters and a personal memoir by his brother Laurence Housman (1937). . First edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ30367
- Title
- War letters of fallen englishmen
- Author
- HOUSMAN, Laurene (ed.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Military History
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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- Gilt
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