IN PARENTHESIS. seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu.

First edition with the calligraphic work and foreword, first printing. Original green cloth, blocked with a design by Ewan Clayton to front panel and spine. Frontispiece by David Jones (from the 1937 first edition); with eight hand-lettered part-title inscriptions by Clayton. Set in Centaur, and printed on Abbey Pure paper at Grafos S. A., Barcelona. In the brown paper-covered card slipcase. A fine, as new copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Loosely laid into this copy is the publisher's flyer announcing the edition.

"In Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and I still regard it, as a work of genius. [...] Here is a book about the experiences of one soldier in the War of 1914-18. It is also a book about War, and about many other things also, such as Roman Britain, the Arthurian Legend, and divers matters which are given association by the mind of the writer" (from T. S. Eliot's 1961 introduction, included in this edition).