Poems
by Wilfred Owen
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Hutton Cranswick, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus. London, Chatto & Windus, 1920. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. Original red cloth, printed paper label to spine. Lacking the dustjacket. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Contemporary ownership stamp and inscriptions to endpapers. Sunning to spine and onto covers, slight wear to spine ends and tips, a couple of small bumps to board edges, offsetting and a tiny spot of rippling to rear pastedown. Perhaps the greatest collection of First World War poetry. This slim volume, promoted and published by Sassoon after Owen?s death and backed by Edith Sitwell, contains all Owen?s best known poems, including 'Dulce et decorum est', 'Insensibility', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', 'Futility' and 'Strange Meeting'. [8791, Hyraxia Books]. . Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1920.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hyraxia (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8791
- Title
- Poems
- Author
- Wilfred Owen
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- POETRY AND PLAYS,,
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Hyraxia
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Hyraxia
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Hutton Cranswick, East Yorkshire
About Hyraxia
Specialist Bookseller dealing in modern first editions and rare books.
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