Buy this book on-line JAMES FENTON : The Memory of War. Poems 1968-1982. (FIRST ISSUE)The Salamander Press, Edinburgh, 1982
First edition, first state - one of 600 misprinted copies with twelve lines missing from the poem Dead Soldiers, and with a specially printed corrected version laid-in. Tall 8vo. 93pp + [i] notes. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. In fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's second collection of verse: the first edition was limited to 3,000 copies, but the first 600, issued between June and September 1982, contained this not insignificant printing error, compelling the publisher to produce a quite elegant four-page correction leaflet to insert with each of these copies. Uncommon.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of JAMES FENTON : The Memory of War. Poems 1968-1982. (FIRST ISSUE). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, out-of-print books, first editions, incunabula and livres rares. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |