{"product_id":"love-and-the-loveless-henry-williamson-1st-edition","title":"Love and the Loveless, Henry Williamson — 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication\u003c\/strong\u003e: London, Macdonald, 1958\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormatting\u003c\/strong\u003e: 8vo, pp. 384.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e: Very Good. The original green cloth binding remains sharp and bright, with firm corners and unbumped spine ends, demonstrating no significant shelf-wear and maintaining a tight, square text block. The text block edges show light, age-related toning and minor foxing to the top edge, typical of the paper stock used during this era, but the internal pages are notably clean, bright, and free of inscriptions. The original Broom Lynne-designed dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the '16s.' price to the lower front flap. It exhibits light rubbing and minor creasing to the spine ends and extremities, alongside some faint darkening and mild handling soiling to the rear white panel, but presents exceptionally well as a fully intact and highly attractive example.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Note\u003c\/strong\u003e: This is a true first edition, first printing of Henry Williamson's \u003ci\u003eLove and the Loveless\u003c\/i\u003e, published in London by Macdonald in 1958. It constitutes the seventh volume in Williamson's monumental fifteen-volume semi-autobiographical series, \u003ci\u003eA Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume features the striking original dust jacket illustrated by James Broom Lynne, whose iconic mid-century jacket designs became a hallmark of the series. While the novel itself is recognised as one of the finest entries in Williamson's chronicle of the Great War, copies retaining a well-preserved, unclipped dust jacket are relatively scarce on the open market, making this an appealing acquisition for collectors of twentieth-century military literature and modern first editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against the harrowing backdrop of the First World War, \u003ci\u003eLove and the Loveless\u003c\/i\u003e follows the fortunes of Phillip Maddison through the dark and desperate year of 1917. Hardened by the brutal reality of the trenches but profoundly haunted by the death of his beloved Lily in a Zeppelin raid, Maddison struggles to reconcile his overwhelming grief with his duty as a transport officer. Drawing deeply on his own lived experiences, Henry Williamson delivers an unflinching, masterfully observed chronicle of life, death, mutiny, and the profound isolation of the ordinary soldier amidst the mud and blood of Passchendaele.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54577058971987,"sku":"5049","price":59.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260809_194232.jpg?v=1786615982","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/love-and-the-loveless-henry-williamson-1st-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}