Owen (Wilfred) The Poems…
£195
A new edition including many pieces now first published, and notices of his life and work by Edmund Blunden
London, Chatto & Windus, 1931.
First edition thus, first impression. 8vo. Original purple cloth.
The 1931 Blunden edition adds nineteen poems to the first edition of 1920 edited by Siegfried Sassoon, and represents the second major collected edition of Owen’s work.
In stock
Light foxing; cloth partly sunned, particularly at spine, minor rubbing.
Frontispiece portrait.
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