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Jones, David.
In Parenthesis.
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London;
Date of Publication: 1937
Stock Code: 15355
First Edition, in a Third Impression dust-jacket. Octavo, pp., 224. Publisher’s buff cloth with grey and gilt titles to spine. Grey top edge. Very lightly foxed to front end-papers, contents clean and bright. Some light edge wear to the price clipped jacket. Spine lettering faded and light soiling to rear panel. David Jones (1895-1974) was a British painter and modernist poet. In Parenthesis is based on Jones's own experience as an infantryman in the Royal Welch Fusiliers serving in the First World War. Jones used a mixture of verse and prose, including Cockney and military slang. T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden regarded Jones’s poetry among the best written of the modernist period. A bright copy. £400.00