Description: Two Stories by Richard Aldington. Published in 1930. Hardcover, no dust jacket. 43 pages. The two stories are "Deserter" and "The Lads of the Village." This copy is #182 of a LIMITED EDITION of 530 copies. It is SIGNED by Aldington on the limitation page. Condition is nice as shown. The binding has held together well and there are no bookplates, pen/pencil markings, or similar flaws. Aside from the absence of a dust jacket, the only condition issue we see is that someone, years ago, apparently left acidic paper documents inside the front and back covers, and the space they occupied is visibly darker than the rest of the page. However, there is no printing on the front or the back of the affected pages. Found in the book was a piece of decorated paper measuring about 2 3/4” x 3 3/8” and containing the book's title, which may have been clipped from the dust jacket. This is also included. Richard Aldington (1892 – 1962) was an English writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement. He was married to the poet Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) from 1911 to 1938. His 50-year writing career covered poetry, novels, criticism and biography. He edited The Egoist, a literary journal, and wrote for The Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, The Criterion and Poetry. His biography of Wellington (1946) won him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His contacts included writers T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Lawrence Durrell, C. P. Snow, and others. He championed Hilda Doolittle as the major poetic voice of the Imagist movement and helped her work gain international notice. On 11 November 1985, Aldington was among 16 Great War poets commemorated in stone at Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone is a quotation from the work of a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen. It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our father was a bibliophile who collected rare books, letters, and ephemera for more than 60 years. For now and into the foreseeable future, we will be listing rare paper items from his estate. Take a look at all our items for sale. We combine shipping upon request. Please LET US KNOW if you’ve purchased multiple items so we can combine.
Price: 29.75 USD
Location: Slingerlands, New York
End Time: 2024-01-24T00:53:49.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, Signed, Limited Edition
Author: ALDINGTON, Richard
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1930
