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T.F. Powys. Mr Westons good wine (signed, limited edition). Chatto and Windus, 1927.
Price: US$63.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed, limited edition. Boards have some wear, scuffs to spine. Toning, some spotting to end papers. Slight cracking to spine. Content has light toning. No DJ
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
POWYS, T. F.. Mr Weston's Good Wine. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$75.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered black buckram. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to 660 copies of which this is #422 signed by the author. Wear to the extremities. Minor staining to front and back panels o/w a sharp copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
T. F. Powys. MR. WESTON'S GOOD WINE. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Limited edition (#627/660) bound in black cloth with gilt title on spine and signed by the author. Top edge gilt rest untrimmed. Illustrated with full page black and white wood cut reproductions.
Seller: Charles Thomas Bookseller, Stratham, NH, U.S.A.
Powys, T. F.. Mr. Weston's Good Wine. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Powys, T. F. Mr. Weston's Good Wine. London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. First edition. Limited to 660 numbered copies signed by Powys, of which this is #450. The first trade edition was published in 1928 in the U.S. by The Viking Press. Other editions have appeared over the years from Chatto & Windus and other publishers including The Hogarth Press and Penguin, and the novel has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish and Finnish. An annotated English text was prepared in 1935 as a textbook for Japanese students of English. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-315 [316]. Original bevel-edged black buckram, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Illustrated with drawings by George Charlton on six inserted plates. A fine copy. #3380. $100. The author's best-known and most highly regarded novel. Like his brother, J. C., T. F. was nothing if not intrepid, venturing here into the territory of allegory, as he did in Unclay (1931), with results that may strike modern readers as eccentric or even alien. These two brothers, children of a high-ranking Anglican clergyman, shared a passion to illuminate transcendent realities -- but according to their own visions, not the received orthodoxy of the Church of England, or any other church. One gets the impression they wrote from a deep spiritual need, not from desire or calculation. The present title presents as its central character a highly unconventional personification of divinity --"God" would be the usual term in Christianity, but it may mislead readers with their own preconceptions. (The hero of Unclay was a kindly visitor who represented Death.) Powys's God is an avuncular old man named Mr. Weston. He has arrived at a village in Dorset, England in a Ford car accompanied by Michael (the archangel), young, tall, handsome. He presents himself merely as a wine merchant, eager to persuade the village inhabitants to "buy" his "good wine." We might best understand this as a symbol of the holy intoxication of a mystical surrender. The village is called Folly Down, and its villagers display a generous range of crooked human timber: cruelty, stupidity, delusions, cowardice, obsessions -- and the kind of folly that God understands as virtue. But Mr. Weston has not come there to judge its people. He is there to try to rescue those who can be helped. Some can't. The author depicts the frail villagers with a restraint that variously suggests tact, sympathy and a biting irony. Things happen. People change. Some find what they has been seeking, some learn that what they sought was dangerous for them. The author (like his deity) generally proceeds with a restraint that feels almost deliberately frustrating at times, but he does let off some impressive fireworks here and there, especially near the end. The novel may strike the modern palette like a dusty bottle of some old liqueur, odd and intense. Admittedly it is something to be sipped rather than gulped. But there is nothing else quite like it. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1047-1051. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-302. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1331. Reginald 11854.
Seller: Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
POWYS, T. F. CHARLTON, George (illus.). Mr. Weston's Good Wine.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 316 pp. With drawings by George Charlton. 8vo, publisher's black gilt-lettered cloth; t.e.g., in dust jacket. First edition; No. 250 of 660 copies, signed by T. F. Powys. Bookplate; otherwise near fine in a slightly tanned jacket with some light rubbing and use.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
T. F. POWYS WITH DRAWINGS BY GEORGE CHARLTON. MR. WESTON'S GOOD WINE. CHATTO & WINDUS, LONDON, 1927.
Price: US$108.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NUMBER 413 OF 660 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO FRONT ENDPAPER, HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, FRONTIS PLUS SEVERAL FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, NO JACKET. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 316 PAGES. FEW MINOR TAPE MARKS TO ENDPAPERS, VERY OCCASIONAL MINOR MARK TO PAGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY WITH MOST PAGES CLEAN, BOARDS FIRMLY ATTACHED & NO MAJOR FAULTS. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$146.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The novel for which Theodore Powys is best remembered. From a Limited Edition of 660 Signed & Numbered copies, this is No. 287. Flat signed "T. F. Powys" on Limitation page. Interesting Gift inscription on ffep, from Rivers Polloick, the lifelong friend of Llewelyn Powys, brother of Theodore and a proloific Essayist & Jouinalist. Comes with the central panels clipped from front and back of original limited edition dustjacket. Protected in removable clear plastic wrapper. Black cloth cover with Gilt lettering on spine. Top page edges Gilt, other edges untrimmed. Frontis illus, 2 gentlemen on a hill looking down on a country village. 5 more Full-Page B&W Plates by George Charlton. 316 p.pages, 9" tall, 890g. Slight edge wear. Binding cracked at first text page and there is some discolouring from an old stripo of cellotape. Rest of text block firm and hinges sound. .
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 660 copies of which this is no. 434. Octavo (22.75cm.); original cloth, top edge gilt, in off-white printed dust jacket; [6],315pp.; frontispiece & plates throughout. Some wear and toning to jacket extremities, most notably to spine, two short closed tears to upper panel not affecting text, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Signed by the author on colophon. Attractive contemporary private bookplate by the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias to front pastedown (owner's signature in facsimile illegible).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.