Description
A first edition, first printing of ‚’In Parenthesis’, published by Faber and Faber in 1937. A very good (or better) book without inscriptions, board a touch tanned with some light foxing to the endpapers. In the very good unclipped wrapper showing 10s 6d (as called for) – some light loss to the extremities of the top edge with some small contemporary repairs internally but no closed tears – spine a touch browned.
‚’In Parenthesis’ (1937) is David Jones’s modernist masterpiece based on his experiences as an infantryman in the First World War. Blending prose, poetry, soldiers’ speech, and mythic references, the book follows a group of British soldiers from training through the trenches to the Battle of the Somme. Jones captures the ordinary rhythms, fear, humour, and comradeship of trench life while placing the war within a wider historical and legendary framework. Widely praised on publication, it remains one of the greatest literary responses to the Great War.
