A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture, Samuel Hynes — 1st Ed

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A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture, Samuel Hynes — 1st Ed

Name: A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture, Samuel Hynes — 1st Ed
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Publication: London, The Bodley Head, 1990

Formatting: 8vo, pp. xiv, 514.

Condition Report: Near Fine. The original terracotta cloth boards remain strikingly sharp, square, and free from corner bumping or notable shelf-wear, while the gilt titling to the spine remains crisp and entirely unoxidised. Internally, the binding is impressively tight and structurally sound, supporting a bright, clean text block that shows no signs of foxing or thumbing to the margins. The unclipped dust jacket is beautifully preserved, retaining vibrant, unfaded artwork with only a whisper of superficial rubbing to the extreme head of the spine. An exceptional, collector-quality copy.

Catalogue Note: A true first edition, first printing of Samuel Hynes’s authoritative cultural study, issued in the publisher’s primary terracotta cloth binding. This volume is illustrated with internal plates that document the artistic and cultural shifts discussed within the text.

Encountering a copy with a dust jacket and cloth binding as remarkably fresh and well-preserved as this one is uncommon, making it an attractive acquisition for collectors of Great War historiography.

Between the opulent Edwardian years and the turbulent 1920s, the First World War opened like a fracture in history, separating an era of established beliefs and values from a profoundly altered world. In A War Imagined, Samuel Hynes delivers a masterly exploration of this transformation, examining how the Great War irreparably reshaped English culture, arts, society, and class structures. Through a sweeping analysis of contemporary writings, parliamentary debates, music, and personal letters, Hynes reveals how the trauma of the trenches forced a new vision of reality upon a changing nation, making it a definitive and essential study of the literary and cultural history of the period.

Book Condition: Near Fine

Book Authors: Samuel Hynes

Book Publisher: The Bodley Head

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: History

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 528

Book Publication Year: 1990

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Book Binding: Hardback

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: Chatham, United Kingdom

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