POEMS BY WIFRED OWEN. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON.

OWEN Wilfred.

Published by Chatto & Windus,, London,, 1921

About this Item

Second Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. 6 7/8 inches x 8 6/8 inches; half-title; frontispiece photographic portrait of Owen in uniform, printed in sepia, with the tissue guard present; title-page; introduction by Siegfried Sassoon; short preface by Owen; contents; second half-title; [12]pp., pp 33, with printer's name on the reverse of p. 33. Original publisher's maroon red cloth printed paper title label on the spine. The tissue guard shows very slight browning, with slight offsetting to the title-page light tanning to endpapers light wear and slight tanning to the spine title label, top corners very slightly bumped. A very good copy of the second edition of the author's only book, the finest collection of WWI verse. With rather tatty, used original good only d/w with loss at spine and rear. Front cover of the jacket has the Sassoon quote - "He was a man of absolute integrity of mind. He never wrote his poems (as so many poems did) to make the effect of a personal gesture. He pitied others; he did not pity himself. In the last year of his life he attained a clear vision of what he needed to say, and these poems survive him as his true and splendid testament." Connolly, The Modern Movement 36. Printed by Morrison and Gibb Ltd. Edinburgh.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: POEMS BY WIFRED OWEN. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON.
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus,, London,
• Publication Date: 1921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included