David Jones (1895-1974)

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Lot 263 | David Jones (1895-1974)
David Jones (1895-1974)

In Paranthesis. 1937

JONES, David (1895-1974). In Parenthesis. London: Faber and Faber, 1937.



First edition, first impression, a fresh copy in a bright dustjacket. The Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, In Parenthesis is Jones’s richly allusive epic poem based on his experiences in the First World War. It was praised by W.B. Yeats and W.H. Auden as a masterpiece of modern literature, while T.S. Eliot described it as ‘a work of genius’ (‘Introduction’ to 1961 edition).



Octavo (220 x 137mm). 2 plates after Jones, one map. Original cream cloth; original printed dustjacket (dustjacket with small nicks at head of spine, closed 40mm tear at foot of front panel, faintly marked at extremities).

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