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HENRY WILLIAMSON. The Wet Flanders Plain.. Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First trade edition (following a limited edition of 400 copies issued by Beaumont the previous year; this Faber issue very slightly revised). 8vo. 147pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust marked and the endpapers very lightly browned. A trace of miscellaneous staining to occasional leaf margins. Very good in tanned, edgeworn and internally repaired dust wrapper with a small area of loss from the head of the spine panel (impacting 'The'). 2990 copies were printed. A fusion of Williamson's two post-war visits to the Western Front battlefields, the first in 1925 and again in 1927, arranged in a loose diary format and merging his recollections with the contemporary scene.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

WILLIAMSON, Henry.. THE WET FLANDERS PLAIN.. The Beaumont Press [1929], London, 1929.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Royal octavo, original decorated paper over boards, buckram spine titled in gilt. 96 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 400 hand-numbered copies, this being copy No. 124 of 320 printed on hand-made paper. Title-page vignette by Randolph Schwabe. Spine panel a touch darkened, tiny bookseller's ticket from The Gotham Book Mart on rear endpaper; a very good, bright copy. THE WET FLANDERS PLAIN made its first appearance in print in the Daily Express, in serial form, under the title SO THIS WAS YPRES. Issued in the same year as the trade edition published by Faber & Faber; according to A BIBLIOGRAPHY. OF HENRY WILLIAMSON by Girvan (The Alcuin press, 1931) the Faber edition has a noticable and significant ommission from the text published in the Beaumont Press edition.

Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada

Henry Williamson. The Wet Flanders Plain. The Beaumont Press, 1929.

Price: US$155.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Some browning to decorated boards and brown spine, the latter with faded gilt lettering. Acetate jacket has a little loss around top of spine and a 1 cm tear at base. Internally book plate on front paste down. Number 219 of 240 copies on hand made paper. All clean and tight.

Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom

WILLIAMSON (Henry). The Wet Flanders Plain.. 1929, 1929.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Description: 1st Ed., [v]+96pp., title page illus. of the Menin Gate by Randolph Schwabe. Beaumont Press. nd Classic account of a post-war journey back to the battlefields where the novelist had served as an officer in the MGC. Of this edition, 80 copies were printed on hand-made parchment vellum & signed by author, artist & publisher & 320 copies on hand-made paper numbered 81-400. The copy offered here is number 123 of the unsigned edition. Orig. qtr. wheat cloth with patterned paper covd. boards (incorporating swords, rifle & ploughshares), VG & scarce. See illustrations on our website.

Seller: Turner Donovan Military Bks, Brighton, SXE, United Kingdom

HENRY WILLIAMSON.. The Wet Flanders Plain.. Beaumont Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, one of 320 numbered copies (from a total edition of 400), printed on handmade paper (this being #300). 8vo. 95pp. Quarter-bound paper-covered fawn cloth featuring a striking design by Randolph Schwabe who also contributes a title-page illustration. Top edge lightly dust marked, endpapers lightly browned and with just a trace of the customary darkening to the backstrip. A virtually fine copy of a handsome production. No dust wrapper called for. A fusion of Williamson's two post-war visits to the Western Front battlefields, the first in 1925 and again in 1927, arranged in a loose diary format and merging his recollections with the contemporary scene.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

WILLIAMSON, HENRY. The Wet Flanders Plain. Beaumont Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$303.26 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of 240 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper & bound in 1/4 beige buckram gilt & decorated paper to boards. Some light wear to upper outside corners, more so to lower outside corners, with some dust soil to white cloth & to upper page edges. There is a small star-shaped ink stamp to the rear pastedown near gutter as well as a small ink mark toward outer edge.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

WILLIAMSON, Henry. The wet flanders plain. The Beaumont Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Description: 96pp, [8]. Original publisher's decorated paper of rifles and ploughshares over quarter buckram, designed by Randolph Schwabe along with the title page. Title lettered in gilt. Bottom and fore-edge uncut, though a little foxed. Wear to all edges, minor bumping to corners, with a few marks and darkening to the spine. Internally bright and clean. Numbered '146' of 400. From the recently dispersed Williamson family library, without indication of such. The Wet Flanders Plain records Williamson's two pilgrimages back to the north of France in the 1920s, after his experiences fighting on the Western Front. First published by the Beaumont Press in an edition of 400 copies. 80 quarter bound in vellum (with the first five not for sale), the remaining copies, as here, bound in quarter buckram imitating the same design, published June 1929. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition. Matthews A11 1929a. Size: 8vo

Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom

Williamson Henry.; Schwabe Randolph illustrator. The Wet Flanders Plain. , 1929.

Price: US$456.14 + shipping

Description: Title-page and covers by Randolph Schwabe, First edition, 8vo., one of a limited edition of 320 copies on hand-made paper, total edition 400 copies, fore and lower edges untrimmed, linen backed decorative boards, gilt, The Beaumont Press, London. Head of spine bumped, the spine a little dusty, the boards a touch grubby around the edges. An account of the Author's return to the battlefields of his service in First World War.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

Williamson (Henry). The Wet Flanders Plain.. London: Beaumont Press, 1929, 1929.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Quarter-vellum & patterned boards, the spine lettered in gilt. Cover and title page design by Randolph Schwabe. Design and typography by Cyril William Beaumont. Two light marks on the front end paper from old adjacent tape, a very clean and attractive copy. This is one of 80 copies on hand-made parchment vellum, signed by Williamson, Schwabe, and Beaumont; the entire edition was 400 copies. The twenty-fourth book issued by the Beaumont Press. Mathews A11. A record of the author's visits to France in the 1920s, to the battlefields where he had fought on the Western Front.

Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada

Williamson (Henry). The Wet Flanders Plain. Beaumont Press, 1929.

Price: US$617.28 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited Edition, copy number 32 of 80 copies, printed on hand-made parchment vellum and signed by Henry Williamson, Randolphe Schwabe and William Beaumont, nice copy in original vellum backed decorated boards, ppo96, Mathews A11

Seller: R.E & G.B Way, NEWMARKET, SUFFO, United Kingdom