WILLIAMS, Raymond. The Border Trilogy, comprising The Border Country, Second Generation, and The Fight for Manod. London: Chatto and Windus. 1960-1979. 8vos. First editions, first impressions. Publisher’s original cloth lettered in gilt to spines, in the equally impressive dust jackets, the first volume by G. J. Galsworthy, the following two by Ionicus. The set generally very good or better, the cloth to all volumes clean and bright, the bindings tight and square, with some light spots to the textblock edges to the first volume, and just a trifle to top edge of the second. Light offsetting to endpapers of the first volume, then fine, and the following volumes especially fine. The dust jackets all unclipped (18s net, 25s net, £5.50 net, respectively). Some very small chips to the first volume at corners and around spine head and tail, joints gently rubbed. The second volume the same but much less so, and the final volume pristine. An altogether excellent set.
Raymond Williams’ important trilogy of novels set in rural south Wales next to the English border, each focusing on place and space, and critiquing both the protective nature of its people alongside its parallel stagnation. As well as his many Marxist writings which have been read across the world, Williams was an early developer of the significance of the everyday in such rural settings. The trilogy and especially the first volume continues to grow in its own significance. Scarce as a set, and in such presentable condition.
WILLIAMS, Raymond. The Border Trilogy, comprising The Border Country, Second Generation, and The Fight for Manod. London: Chatto and Windus. 1960-1979. 8vos. First editions, first impressions. Publisher’s original cloth lettered in gilt to spines, in the equally impressive dust jackets, the first volume by G. J. Galsworthy, the following two by Ionicus. The set generally very good or better, the cloth to all volumes clean and bright, the bindings tight and square, with some light spots to the textblock edges to the first volume, and just a trifle to top edge of the second. Light offsetting to endpapers of the first volume, then fine, and the following volumes especially fine. The dust jackets all unclipped (18s net, 25s net, £5.50 net, respectively). Some very small chips to the first volume at corners and around spine head and tail, joints gently rubbed. The second volume the same but much less so, and the final volume pristine. An altogether excellent set.
Raymond Williams’ important trilogy of novels set in rural south Wales next to the English border, each focusing on place and space, and critiquing both the protective nature of its people alongside its parallel stagnation. As well as his many Marxist writings which have been read across the world, Williams was an early developer of the significance of the everyday in such rural settings. The trilogy and especially the first volume continues to grow in its own significance. Scarce as a set, and in such presentable condition.
