Author: Mary Borden
Title: The Forbidden Zone
Description: London, William Heinemann, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of Mary Borden's semi-autobiographical novel, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, of this work from the Chicago born socialite Mary Borden, who during the First World War funded and worked in a military hospital on the French front.Comprised of short stories, 'written recently from memory', alongside further poems and sketches penned during the war years, this work was published in the same year as such classics as 'A Farewell to Arms', and 'All Quiet on the Western Front', though in its form has been compared to the works of modernist authors including Edith Sitwell and Ezra Pound.In the scarce publisher's original dust wrapper, unclipped.With Percy Smith's image of Thiepval, near the Somme, serving as the frontispiece.A celebrated account of life on the front. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to spine head and tail, with a small area of light fading to the head of the front board. Hinges strained, and a touch tender. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip, with small losses of paper to spine head and tail, and further small loss to head of front and rear wrap. Light tide mark to head of front wrap. Small hole and closed tear to rear flyleaf fold. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, but with instances of light spotting to page perimeters. Very Good . Ill.: Percy Smith. Very Good/Very Good.
Keywords: First World War autobiographical fiction mary borden modernism autobiographical fiction Percy Smith
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Title: The Forbidden Zone
Description: London, William Heinemann, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of Mary Borden's semi-autobiographical novel, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, of this work from the Chicago born socialite Mary Borden, who during the First World War funded and worked in a military hospital on the French front.Comprised of short stories, 'written recently from memory', alongside further poems and sketches penned during the war years, this work was published in the same year as such classics as 'A Farewell to Arms', and 'All Quiet on the Western Front', though in its form has been compared to the works of modernist authors including Edith Sitwell and Ezra Pound.In the scarce publisher's original dust wrapper, unclipped.With Percy Smith's image of Thiepval, near the Somme, serving as the frontispiece.A celebrated account of life on the front. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to spine head and tail, with a small area of light fading to the head of the front board. Hinges strained, and a touch tender. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip, with small losses of paper to spine head and tail, and further small loss to head of front and rear wrap. Light tide mark to head of front wrap. Small hole and closed tear to rear flyleaf fold. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, but with instances of light spotting to page perimeters. Very Good . Ill.: Percy Smith. Very Good/Very Good.
Keywords: First World War autobiographical fiction mary borden modernism autobiographical fiction Percy Smith
Price: GBP 450.00 = appr. US$ 642.59 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 856F3
- Book number: 856F3
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