Faber & Faber - Latest Updates

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Comment by 23skidoo:

Burgess listed as co-author owing to his editorial and textual contributions to this edition. Since this is a major re-editing with commentary, I didn't index it as a new edition Finnegans Wake itself.

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Comment by ppint.:

faber & faber (though there was only ever the one, geoffrey faber) first printing, first edition

cover d-j art by peter curl (signed curl) (of the bridge of the first part, in black with spot yellow & red)
cover d-j price 12/6
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards


distinguish from 1965 second printing by reference to the indicia publishing history
which adds "second impression mcmlxv"
cover (d-j) price 18/-

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Comment by ppint.:

faber & faber h/cvr first printing, first or simultaneous first edition
typeset by faber & faber ltd.

dedication: to joyce mclennan
friend and personal assistant who has typed my novels for thirty-five years
with affection and gratitude

cover (d-j) art monochrome vignette by neil gower (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price £18.99
320pp. including (i -) x pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, perfectbound onto a flexible strip with deep red endpapers between black paper-covered boards, with title, author & faber & faber logo on spine in gold

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Comment by ppint.:

george herbert 4/1593 - 1633

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Comment by ppint.:

faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) tp/b first printing, first edition
reprinted 1969, 1972, 1979 and 1981

69 poems by george herbert selected and introduced by r. s. thomas

cover art unsigned, uncredited reproduction in red on white of an engraving presumably of the author
cover price £1.95
96pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, 10½pp. introduction etc, 4 end pp: 3pp. index of first lines 1 blank page

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Comment by ppint.:

faber & faber (he + himself) h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover art (unsigned restricted palette (red & black, title left white) of ear on a wall)
cover price £1.40
228pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, a blank end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

* - check if my faber h/cvr includes andrew stephenson's illustrations

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Comment by ppint.:

faber & faber h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by brian c. rigby (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price 18/-
232pp. including six pages titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

faber & faber first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art by john c. griffiths
cover (d-j) price 13/6d
160pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf forward by the author, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

refer to indicia publishing history to check for presence/absence of line(s) noting (at least) two subsequent impressions (printings from the same typesetting):

second impression 1963 (existence & date noted in the publishing history of the third impression)
third impression 1968 (i)sbn (0-)571-05126-X cover price c. 18/-; may have been increased by publisher's price gun label during the lifetime of the impression.