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London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. Reprint. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-toned and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 191 pages: facsimiles; 23 cm. Contents: Main dates of Wilfred Owen's life -- Introduction / C. Day Lewis -- Preface / [Wilfred Owen] -- War poems -- Other poems, and fragments -- Minor poems, and Juvenilia -- Appendix 1. Memoir (1931) / by Edmund Blunden -- Appendix 2. Wild with all regrets -- Anthem for doomed youth [facsimiles of first, second, third and final drafts]. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Poetry. Owen, Wilfred 1893-1918. English poetry 20th century.

1963. Chatto and Windus, London. 1963. Hardback with DW. Wrapper is price clipped, browned and torn with some loss to corners. Ownership signature to front end paper. Spine of boards crumpled at head and tail. Slight foxing to edges. A nice clean and sound copy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance; playwright Christopher Fry's copy with his signature. Fine cloth in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 191 pages. Subject; Memoir. Blunden, Edmund 1896-1974. Poetry.

London: Imperial War Museum, 1990. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1921. Hardcover. Good.. 8vo.. Second impression of the first edition. A slim volume bound in maroon cloth. The spine title label is missing. Spine is faded. Small puncture mark to front board. Edges are bumped. End papers are age tanned. Printed on heavy cream uncut paper. Protective tissue guard over the frontispiece portrait of Owen. 1921

Chatto& Windus. London. 1921 [March reprint].. pp. xi, (i) blank, 34, (ii). Frontispiece photogravure portrait with tissue guard. Publisher's maroon cloth, small damp-mark at the lower fore-edges of both boards bleeding onto the paste-downs but not affecting the contents, the lower corner of the rear cover bumped, a touch of wear to the spine ends, spine faded with the paper title label intact, lower corner of the tissue guard creased, usual light foxing of the end-papers, booksellers' ticket of JOHN M. WATKINS of Cecil Court, owner's signature dated 1927, not a perfect copy but pretty good.

Hardcover, no dust jacket (mylar added), corners rubbed and discoloration to front, otherwise condition is very good. Portrait of Owen with tissue guard that left offset browning on title page. Publisher's device on front cover. First publication in book form of Owen's poems, edited by Siegfried Sassoon, who was Owen's friend and mentor, with the assistance of Edith Sitwell. A rare find.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition. Photogravure frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard. ix, 33 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Red cloth, with printed paper spine label. Usual paste offset to flyleaves. Fine copy in the original dust jacket, spine panel faintly toned with a small nail chip at center, and smaller loss at foot (not touching imprint). An outstanding copy of a book that is almost invariably worn, and almost never seen in jacket. First edition. Photogravure frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard. ix, 33 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. In the RARE Dust Jacket. First edition of Owen's posthumously published first book. One of the landmarks of Twentieth Century poetry and unquestionably the finest collection of poems to come out of the Great War, including "Strange Meeting", "Anthem For Doomed Youth", "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "Futility". Owen was killed at the Front a week before the Armistice in November 1918. As Owen's Preface, found among his papers after his death, so poignantly… Read More