The wet flanders plain.
New York .
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929.
First American edition.
8vo.
122pp, [6]. Original publisher's black and yellow cloth boards, lettered in yellow, fore and bottom edge uncut. Without dustwrapper. Page block starting. Boards are lightly worn with some marking. Internally bright and clean save extensive penmanship. Inscribed 'for Henry Williamson: I hope you will like having this part of the past brought back to you and I hope it is pleasant to recall at least some of it. It is rather a nice bit of book production, isn't it? Again, it is sent with the greatest pleasure and the best of wishes. H. A. Rappaport, Brooklyn, N.Y.' Underneath in Williamson's distinctive hand 'Personal property of author. Kindly return in good condition.' Williamson's characteristic annotations and minor changes to parts of the text appear throughout this copy, though do not appear to correspond to any other edition.
The H. A. Rappaport who has inscribed this copy is likely the mid-century Brooklyn based publisher and collector, best known for making one off copies of works for authors, and adding their correspondence to his collections.
The Wet Flanders Plain records Williamson's two pilgrimages back to the north of France in the 1920s, after his experiences fighting on the Western Front. First published by the Beaumont Press in an edition of 400 copies. 80 quarter bound in vellum (with the first five not for sale), the remaining copies bound in quarter buckram imitating the same design, published June 1929. Published the same year were the London Faber & Faber edition, slightly revised, November 1929, and the American edition by Dutton, after the Faber, purportedly December 1929.
Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition.
The Wet Flanders Plain records Williamson's two pilgrimages back to the north of France in the 1920s, after his experiences fighting on the Western Front. First published by the Beaumont Press in an edition of 400 copies. 80 quarter bound in vellum (with the first five not for sale), the remaining copies bound in quarter buckram imitating the same design, published June 1929. Published the same year were the London Faber & Faber edition, slightly revised, November 1929, and the American edition by Dutton, after the Faber, purportedly December 1929.
Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition.
Matthews A11 1929c.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 27920
