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Beowulf: A novel
by BRYHER; JAUSS, Anne Marie (DJ design)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1956. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Original quarter black cloth, lettered in silver, patterned paper boards. Pushing to spine ends, top corners bruised. Scatter of spots to top edge, endpapers toned, Warren F. Johnson's studious ex libris to to front pastedown. Else, clean and tight. In Anne Marie Jauss' original pictorial dust jacket, featuring a grumpy statue of an English bulldog in charcoal: price-clipped, spine sunned, gentle wear to extremities. A lovely copy of Bryher's WWII novel. Very good/ very good With a printed dedication to Sylvia Beach "and the memory of Adrienne Monnier". Monnier had translated Beowulf into French and written the introduction for the first French edition, published in a limited edition of 100 copies by Mercure de Paris in 1948 (see our copy, ref. 2459). Monnier described Beowulf as "un petit classique". Set in London during the Blitz, it centres on the lives that intersect through the Warming Pan tearoom, run by Selina and Angelina. Anne Marie Jauss (1902/7-1991) was a prolific German-American artist and book illustrator.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2693
- Title
- Beowulf: A novel
- Author
- BRYHER; JAUSS, Anne Marie (DJ design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
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