JONES, David. The Anathemata
JONES, David. The Anathemata: fragments of an attempted writing. London: Faber and Faber. 1955. 8vo. Second edition, published three years after the first. Publisher’s cream boards with red lettering to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by the author. With nine plates, also by Jones, and all present. A very good book, the cloth clean and bright, a trifle marked at extremities. The binding tight and square, gently bumped along spine head. The textblock edges spotted, with some fairly heavy offsetting to endpapers, some lighter scattered foxing to prelims and towards rear, occasionally seeping at extremities but largely fine. Small bookseller label to front pastedown corner. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) and mostly complete with a few areas of loss around corners, top edge, and the spine panel, which is darkened, though hidden in part due to the similar cloth colour. Lightly rubbed elsewhere, but a handsome copy.
Jones’ perhaps difficult epic poem on Western culture and history, which consolidated him, by Auden and Eliot’s standards, as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
JONES, David. The Anathemata: fragments of an attempted writing. London: Faber and Faber. 1955. 8vo. Second edition, published three years after the first. Publisher’s cream boards with red lettering to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by the author. With nine plates, also by Jones, and all present. A very good book, the cloth clean and bright, a trifle marked at extremities. The binding tight and square, gently bumped along spine head. The textblock edges spotted, with some fairly heavy offsetting to endpapers, some lighter scattered foxing to prelims and towards rear, occasionally seeping at extremities but largely fine. Small bookseller label to front pastedown corner. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) and mostly complete with a few areas of loss around corners, top edge, and the spine panel, which is darkened, though hidden in part due to the similar cloth colour. Lightly rubbed elsewhere, but a handsome copy.
Jones’ perhaps difficult epic poem on Western culture and history, which consolidated him, by Auden and Eliot’s standards, as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
JONES, David. The Anathemata: fragments of an attempted writing. London: Faber and Faber. 1955. 8vo. Second edition, published three years after the first. Publisher’s cream boards with red lettering to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by the author. With nine plates, also by Jones, and all present. A very good book, the cloth clean and bright, a trifle marked at extremities. The binding tight and square, gently bumped along spine head. The textblock edges spotted, with some fairly heavy offsetting to endpapers, some lighter scattered foxing to prelims and towards rear, occasionally seeping at extremities but largely fine. Small bookseller label to front pastedown corner. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) and mostly complete with a few areas of loss around corners, top edge, and the spine panel, which is darkened, though hidden in part due to the similar cloth colour. Lightly rubbed elsewhere, but a handsome copy.
Jones’ perhaps difficult epic poem on Western culture and history, which consolidated him, by Auden and Eliot’s standards, as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.