Poems. With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon.

Owen (Wilfred)

Published by Chatto & Windus, 1920

About this Item

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait (coming away slightly at head, but secure), tissue-guard with offset browning to title-page, the latter also with a couple of spots to fore-margin, pp. ix, [1], 33, 4to, original red cloth, backstrip with printed label, slightly faded at ends with a little wear, a little bubbling to cloth and corners slightly bumped, faint partial browning to free endpapers, light vertical crease to flyleaf, the front pastedown with the bookplate of author Richard Adams, laid in the remains of the dustjacket (the whole of its front panel, heavily browned and spotted but with flap still attached, the rear flap also present), good. The copy of author Richard Adams, whose library included a good collection of First World War poetry - the present volume perhaps the most notable. A fragile book, this copy retains remnants of the elusive dustjacket. His early interest in Owen's verse is evinced by his selection of a contemporary edition of the 'Poems' when a schoolboy at Bradfield College (see below). [With:] Owen (Wilfred) The Poems. Edited, with a memoir and notes by Edmund Blunden. [The Phoenix Library.] Chatto & Windus, 1933, faint spotting to half-title, pp. vii, 135, 16 [Publisher's catalogue,] foolscap 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little faded with tiny nick at head, the upper board with the crest of Bradfield College, prize label of same to front pastedown, presenting this as the Denning Prize in 1936 to 'R.G. Adama [i.e., the novelist, Richard Adams], good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems. With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon.
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 1920
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Edition