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WILLIAMSON (Henry)
The Wet Flanders Plain.
1st Ed., [v]+96pp., title page illus. of the Menin Gate by Randolph Schwabe. Beaumont Press. nd
1929
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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 63 of the superior edition printed on hand-made parchment & signed by Henry Williamson (author), Randolph Schwabe (illustrator of title-page) & Cyril W. Beaumont (publisher). Orig. qtr. vellum with patterned paper covd. boards (incorporating swords, rifle & ploughshares), near fine & very scarce. See illustrations on our website.
£325
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