The Poems.
A new edition including many pieces now first published, and notices of his work by Edmund Blunden.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931 Stock Code: 143660
Large paper copy, signed by Blunden
First Blunden edition of Wilfred Owen's poems, first impression, number 23 of 160 large paper copies, and signed by Blunden on page 41 at the end of his "Memoir".This edition was expanded by fellow war-poet Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) from the first edition of 1920 edited by Siegfried Sassoon, who of all the war poets had known Owen best, albeit briefly. Blunden's edition, produced Sassoon's co-operation, was the second overall - the 1921 printing, termed "second edition", was merely a reprint of the first.
Description
Octavo. Original brown buckram, titles to spine in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.
Illustrations
Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard.
Condition
A hint of rubbing to corners, the binding otherwise sharp and unfaded, foxed, contents otherwise unmarked; a very good copy.
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