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(20p.) Illustrated with numerous drawings. Rear wrap includes folding map and boiler elevations. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. First edition. PA PAMPH 20_17 BX5
23p. Pagination includes wraps. Illustrated with numerous drawings. Rear wrap includes folding map and boiler elevations. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. First printed 1975. PA PAMPH 20_1 BX2 + PA PAMPH 20_13 BX2 = 1979 3rd ed
4 vols., roy. 8vo., Revised Edition, Large Paper, on English hand-made paper; original coloured buckram (respectively blue, yellow, red, green), upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips very lightly sunned and dust-soiled (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, bright, clean set. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES OF EACH VOLUME SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR (THESE COPIES NUMBERED RESPECTIVELY 152, 69, 51, 135). IN THE SECOND VOLUME WILLIAMSON HAS SIGNED AND NUMBERED IN GREEN INK. Williamson's first published work, 'The Beautiful Years' is the first of four in which he tells the story of 'one human unit of Europe immediately before and after the war'. The four titles are 'The Beautiful Years', 'Dandelion Days', 'The Dream of Fair Women' and 'The Pathway'. They were to be subtitled 'A Tale of Childhood', 'A Tale of Boyhood', 'A Tale of Youth' and 'A Tale of Life' through in the event only the first of these was used. The four books were first published respectively in 1921, 1922, 1924 and 1928; the tetralogy was first issued in a single volume in 1936. The present texts are as follows: first volume (second text, revised), second volume (second text, rewritten), third volume (second text, revised), fourth volume (second text, revised). Regarding the first volume, Matthews states that 'some advance review copies have an error on p.62…corrected in the published edition'. This error is present here, but Matthews makes no mention of the fact. EXTREMELY SCARCE AS A SET IN THE LIMITED EDITION. Matthews, A1 1929a(ii), A3 1930a(ii), A5 1931a(ii), and A9 1931b.
8vo., First Edition, free endpapers moderately browned, fore-edges mottled, title mildly browned; original navy blue cloth, upper and backstrip lettered in red, a good, tight copy. The title is blind-stamped 'Review Copy'. With the 4pp of publisher's advertisements at end as called for. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED. Williamson's first book, being the first volume of 'The Flax of Dream' sequence. Perfectly sound copy with no trace of the cockling often present on front board. Very scarce, especially in this condition. Gretton, 1; Matthews A1.
8vo., First US Edition thus, short ink stroke on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in gilt and blind, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy. Third volume of 'The Flax of Dream' sequence. This is the definitive version, revised from the text of 1924, with 4pp valediction at end. Matthews A5/1931b
8vo., First Edition thus; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright clean copy. Third volume of 'The Flax of Dream' sequence. This is the definitive version, revised from the text of 1924, with 4pp valediction at end. Matthews A5/1931a
8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free end papers; green cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age marked, else a a very good, bright, clean copy. Gretton 9; Matthews A9/1928a.
8vo., with map in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, yellow top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Firsy published in 1941.
Mm 160x235 Volume rilegato di pp. 76, cartonato rigido, alcune pp. pubblicitarie, in buono stato. Senza data. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
