Ultramarine: A Novel (Tusk Ivories)

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Hardback first edition and first impression. Near fine with a little edge wear and toning to the top of the jacket. A couple of nicks. Gathered signatures bound into drab gray paper wrappers. Some foxing early and late, tanning at edges, short closed tear at top edge of front wrapper and title, wraps a bit creased and darkened, but a good copy.

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Custom folding cloth case. Sheets of the first edition of the author's uncommon first book printed in an edition of fifteen hundred copies , denoted a "File Copy" via a small stamp on the title leaf. There are no variations in composition, paper, trim-size, etc, from the published book. The wrappers are potentially of somewhat later vintage, and this copy may have been retained by the printer, binder, or publisher in the course of production.

A fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. The author's first book. Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. Ultramarine Malcolm Lowry Ships with Tracking Number! May not contain Access Codes or Supplements.

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Very near fine in like dust jacket. Introduction by Margerie Lowry. A new and revised edition of the author's first book. Originally published in Neat name on the front endpaper. Dust jacket has a trace of rubbing at the extremities, otherwise a very good copy indeed..

Dale Cournoyer Books Edition: Cloud 9 Books Condition: Previous owner's name top of ffep. Dark blue cloth, gilt title on spien. Blue dust jacket illustrated on both covers. DJ lightly worn at edges and corners. Ultramarine Lowry, Malcolm Philadelphia. Jacket design by Triangle. It was revised by the author before his death in , and with this edition makes its first appearance in the United States.

Anxious to win the approval of his shipmates, a rough, derisive lot, and to match their example in the bars and bordellos of the Chinese ports, Dana struggles at the same time to remain faithful to his first love, Janet, back in England. And the themes sounded in this first novel - including the obsession with the sea and the fatal attraction to drink - are those that were to occupy Malcolm Lowry throughout his writing life.

Clarke Irwin, in association with Jonathan Cape, Paper-over-boards. First Revised Edition, First Canadian. Author's 1st book, with a new introduction by Margerie Lowry the 2nd Mrs. Blue paper over boards, gilt spine title, blue pictorial d. Horizontal hairline crease along t. A scarce Lowry item, much less common than the 1st American edition an unrevised reissue of the U. His first book, revised on his deathbed in , published here for the 1st time.. Near fine copy of first printing of stated first American edition in near fine Brodarted dust jacket.

Book has very light sticker shadow on FFEP, small faint stain on top of text block. The main focus is on events in Chinese ports and Hong Kong. Dana tries to be true to his English girlfriend, Janet, while he is confronted with life in the bars and bordellos of China and Hong Kong. Malcolm Lowry's "Ultramarine" is a bildungsroman, a novel of Dana's education and initiation into manhood during his life as a sailor. Dana Hilliot mixes with his shipmates and tries to live up to their example. Malcolm Lowry's "Ultramarine" reads very smoothly and quickly with a fascinating style alternating between Dana's own literary language and the vivid, colloquial, sea language of his shipmates.

Malcolm Lowry's "Ultramarine" is an excellent novel. I give it my highest recommendation. The French Translator for Lowry's masterpiece, Under The Volcano, said that, until Lowry, she had only encoutered two types of writers: Here we have the young Lowry's thinly veiled autobiographical hero, Dana Hilliot a name Lowry contrived from Richard Henry Dana, author of Two Years Before the Mast, James Hilton, whom Lowry knew at school, and T S Eliot remaining sometime tiresomely faithful toward the dialogue of the sailors on ship as well as wending his unique "Lowromancings" as he playfully called his poetic, philosophical passages through the work.

Let's be thankful that Lowry kept searching and swirling and went on to write one of the greatest novels of the century. Interesting read, I got this book because it was on a list of forgotten books that people should read! Happy to find it here, and for a great price! Good for book clubs or discussions! One person found this helpful. The best author in the English language.

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A Novel To the Ends of the Earth. A Night Of Serious Drinking. Under the Volcano The Criterion Collection. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Wanted to read early Lowry, this was his first book, mostly written when he was around Lots to criticize but showed a taste of what was to come, his classic "Under The Volcano". Jun 19, Gosia added it. Sep 22, Erik added it. Abel rated it really liked it Mar 30, Jerry Richter rated it liked it Aug 24, Alicia rated it liked it Jan 12, Vince rated it liked it Oct 09, Apr 12, Dawn rated it did not like it Shelves: I started reading this by accident.

I forgot that I hadn't been able to finish Lowry's other book Under the Volcano , either.

His writing style is grating - watery, stream-of-consciousness prose where you can't tell what's real and what's drunken blathering. Overlapping dialogue ascribed to no one and frequent lapses into various foreign languages.

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Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet whose masterpiece Under the Volcano is widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Born near Liverpool, England, Lowry grew up in a prominent, wealthy family and chafed under the expectations placed upon him by parents and boarding school. He wrote passionately on the themes of exile and despair, and his own wanderlust and err Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet whose masterpiece Under the Volcano is widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

He wrote passionately on the themes of exile and despair, and his own wanderlust and erratic lifestyle made him an icon to later generations of writers. Lowry died in a rented cottage in the village of Ripe, Sussex, where he was living with wife Margerie after having returned to England in the summer of , ill and impoverished.

The coroner's verdict was death by misadventure, and the causes of death given as inhalation of stomach contents, barbiturate poisoning, and excessive consumption of alcohol.

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