Poems. With an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon.

OWEN, Wilfred.

Published by New York: B. W. Huebsch, [1920] 1921

About this Item

First edition, US issue bound from the original UK sheets with the US cancel title page in the subsequent year, very scarce in such a sharp dust jacket. This American edition was taken up by the notably modernist B. W. Huebsch, the American publisher of James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. The collection was promoted and published by Sassoon after Owen's death with the backing of Edith Sitwell. The work, which is often described as the greatest collection of First World War poetry, contains all of Owen's best known poems, including "Dulce et decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", and "Strange Meeting". Quarto. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Original grey boards, titles to spine in gilt, publisher's device in blind to front cover, top edge blue, others untrimmed. With dust jacket. Negligible creasing and touch of wear to spine ends and tips, offsetting to endpapers; else a near-fine, notably fresh copy in the uncommonly well-preserved jacket, with light soiling and scuffs to panels, slight creasing, and nicks to extremities, and small chips to spine ends and tips.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems. With an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon.
• Publisher: New York: B. W. Huebsch, [1920] 1921
• Edition: 1st Edition