Buy this book on-line WILLIAMSON**, HENRY: : THE SUN IN THE SANDSLONDON.FABER & FABER LIMITED,1945. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.[True UK first edn with the 'This book is produced in complete conformity with the authorized economy standards.' on reverse of the title page, advice/notification,and stated: First published in Mcmxlv.Uncommon example in a book of this age and given the period of it's production,i.e. 1942-1946 - with wartime paper-rationing,the quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids.Most dw/dj from this era would have been of substandard quality and prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title.] VG+.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp and generally clean,publisher's original red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked and non-oxidised gilt letters to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal bumping to head+foot of spine and to corners; fairly clean plain white eps, rear top corner affected with a minimal crease - no major nicks or tears present.Top edges dust-soiled and darkened with some minimal sporadic spotting/foxing,fore-edges similar but to a much lesser degree; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine for book's age - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Printed on authorized economy standard paper stock which is thin and has consequently become toned over the years with the passage of time.UK,slim 12mo HB,minus issued dw/dj,1st edn, 7-249pp [paginated] includes author's explanation/note on the book's genesis and publication,Pts I-III comprising 40 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author's contemporary (1921)b/w portrait photographic frntis,title page,contents list/table and to the rear,2pp blanks.
Written in the post-war years 1918-1924 whilst Williamson was in in America staying in Florida, presented to American publishers who turned it down as" too dated" and "too English" for the American public.It was eventually published 1945 after being re-presented in 1944.
Having experienced the Christmas Truce of 1914,when Germans and Englishmen left their trenches to fraternise and play soccer,for Williamson it was an enduring memory.For many men such as Williamson returning from the war and far from hating Germans,were determined that never again would ‘brother Europeans’ fight among themselves for the sake of greed and selfishness.
After being demobbed from the army as a Captain with the Military Cross,Williamson returned to his family home and entered employment with the Weekly Dispatch in Fleet Street.He had his first articles published in several major periodicals. In 1919,he read The Story of My Heart by the 19th Century English nature writer Richard Jeffries.This was to have a crucial impact upon him as a revelation that he - the individual self - is more than an isolated echo but a link that stretches without beginning or end in a cosmic flow.It was the sun that represented the symbol of this timelessness and unity.For Williamson this truth known to all traditionalist civilisations,but smothered in our materialistic society is that of a mystical union between the eternal sunlight and the earth.The symbol of the ancient sunlight was something ‘born within’.
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