Blunden editor (20 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 8.50x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (literature, poetry, poems) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 202 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Published for Christmas 1959. Features poems by Edmund Blunden, Marnie Pomeroy, Terence Hards, Donald Davie, Alastair Reid, Martin Seymour-Smith, Elena Fearn, and Ewart Milne. A fine copy in stapled wrappers.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Bibliographical Series of Supplements to the British Book News. Stapled edition, firmly bound and clean inside. Some handling wear and marks to tanned covers, including tears to the spine hinge edges and creased corners.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover with removable plastic covered unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Rear upper board edge and spine ends are bumped. Light foxing on the page block and endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Flexible Cloth. Zustand: Very good +. Reprint. 639p, octavo. A very good + copy in publisher's slipcase. Covers and spine are lightly rubbed, minor wear to edges, top edge of textblock gilt. Later reprint.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Stapled edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 68 pages. 6.69x0.31x9.44 inches. In Stock. Zavala, Claudia (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Minor wear, some tanning. Some wear to edges and spine. Some tanning to spine and edges of pages. Corners slightly bumped. Jacket repaired. Several small tears to the jacket. . NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 410 pages. 9.09x6.02x1.02 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. Original blue cloth with mounted title on spine, uncut, 8vo.; Spine and part front cover discoloured; no dust jacket.

Full-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Another Edition. 639 pages. Small loss at very top of spine otherwise would have been fine. Gilt top page edges. Size: 185mm Tall, 12mo. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. new edition. 430 pages. 8.27x5.83x1.54 inches. In Stock.

First edition, 4to, viii, 179, [3]pp., one of 500 numbered copies, frontis., orig. boards, lightly faded, printed paper label to spine. Provenance: From the library of Douglas Grant, with a few notes added in pencil.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Vellum-backed flower-patterned paper boards with label. 8vo. 94pp. One of 80 copies printed on handmade parchment vellum and signed by the editor, publisher and Wyndham Payne who designed the cover and title page vignette. A collection of impressions of the two poets by noted friends and literary contemporaries, edited by the noted British critic. They include letters and articles written for publication in periodicals. The authors include such noted figures as Leigh Hunt and his son Thornton Hunt. A good copy with some browning to the patterned covers and some chipping to the corners. The text is very good and clean. Signed by Author(s).…

2pp, landscape 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Begins: 'Dear Christopher Fry, | I am sorry to contradict you, but I showed my co-editor, the poet Rodney Pybus, your poem "For Edmund Blunden", and we both [last word underlined] feel it should be published, and that we would like to publish it. Please.' In the hope that Fry will agree, he asks him to 'sign and return an acceptance form and send us the biog. note you would like to print alongside the poem'. He continues: 'I do hope you'll agree. I knew Blunden, and have written about his poetry in my [central?] book on the First World War poets Out of Battle which Macmillan are to bring back into print this year'. …

983 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, no. 30 of 250 copies printed on India paper, signed and numbered by the editor. 983 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Kirkpatrick B40b Black buckram spine, titled in gilt, marbled boards. Near fine, bright copy (minor rubbing) without slipcase First edition, no. 30 of 250 copies printed on India paper, signed and numbered by the editor. Signed.…

S.l.: s.n. [Not before 1965.] Cohen: 8vo. Pale blue printed card wrappers, stapled as issued; pp. 24. With accompanying envelope addressed to Cohen in typescript 'from Professor Blunden', typescript letter from Blunden to Cohen (175 x 135 mm, single leaf, pp. [2]) dated 12 January 1967 and signed 'E. Blunden', and facsimile typescript letter from Cohen to Blunden dated 12 December 1966 (280 x 215 mm, see below). Owen: 8vo. Original brown buckram over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, tail- and fore-edges untrimmed, partly unopened; pp. [ii], vii, [1 (blank)], 135, [1 (blank)]; photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard; light spotting to endpapers and prelims, spine ends slightly rubbed; a very good copy.No. 11 of 160 'special edition' copies (of which 150 were for sale) of the first edition of Edmund Blunden's landmark edition of Wilfred Owen's poems, this copy signed by Blunden at the foot of his biography of the poet; offered with Blunden's copy of the scarce offprint of Joseph Cohen's controversial pamphlet, Owen Agonistes, with Cohen's letter to Blunden on Owen's homosexuality and Blunden's dismissive reply.Blunden's extended edition of Owen's poems appeared eleven years after the slimmer volume edited by Seigfried Sassoon and Edith Sitwell in 1920. A war veteran and distinguished poet himself, Blunden was urged to edit the volume by Sassoon, who was never pleased with the earlier edition. '[A] more experienced and exacting editor' (Stallworthy), Blunden added 37 poems to the 23 in the 1920 edition, as well as a memoir of Owen and notes to the poems. Like Sassoon and Sitwell, he reprints Owen's short sketch for a preface, adding the poet's own table of contents ('with its perplexities'). The edition 'helped to consolidate Owen's reputation and elevate him to the iconic status he was to hold for poets and readers of poetry in the 1930s and after' (Stallworthy); it was the volume that endeared Owen to Auden, and later Larkin. Blunden has signed this copy at the foot of his memoir and to Owen's preface. Joseph Cohen, the owner of this copy, scholar of First World War poetry, and biographer of Isaac Rosenberg, was a professor at Tulane University. In 1965, Cohen published the influential article 'Owen Agonistes' English Literature in Transition, 1965, later issued in the pamphlet offered here. The essay, which sought to uncover what Cohen describes as a 'conspiracy' of silence regarding Owen's homosexuality, was greeted with some hostility among existing Owen scholars. A reaction against Sassoon's claim in the introduction to the 1920 edition of Owen's poems that '[a]ll that was strongest in Wilfred Owen survives in his poems; any superficial impressions of his personality, any records of his conversation, behaviour, or appearance, would be irrelevant and unseemly', the essay broke new ground and has been influential for later scholars. The signed copy of Owen Agonistes is accompanied by a facsimile copy Cohen's letter to Edmund Blunden, sent with a copy of the pamphlet (presumably this copy), along with Blunden's original typed, hand-signed reply to Cohen, on Blunden's printed writing paper and complete with the stamped envelope. The short, but fascinating letter is at once heartfelt and angry, while remaining civil. 'Your kindness in sending me the inscribed pamphlet on W. Owen I much appreciate, though as you wrote in your letter I might not enjoy your thesis. You seem (p. 4 and elsewhere) to describe me as a deliberate writer of untruth about Owen. The word "conspiracy" is not a pleasant one in such connections, if any. Your conclusion on p. 24 connects me with a "windy and empty legend" etc. I can only say that I wrote, long ago, by request, quite simply about Owen, from all see sources I had, and had no wish to do anything but record him and edit his poems. From his father, mother, sister and brother I had no evidence (why should they think as you say about his private life)? Having been.…

London: Chatto and Windus. 1931. 8vo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the dust-jacket (printed in burgundy and black) priced 6s. net to the front flap; pp. vii, [1 (blank)], 135, [1 (blank)]; photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, fore- and tail-edges untrimmed; spine and upper edge sunned, slight soiling and rubbing to spine, a few marks to covers, some wear to spine ends and corners; else a very good copy in like wrapper; Siegfried Sassoon's monogrammed presentation inscription to Edith Oliver to half-title, dated 21 March 1931; housed in a custom drop-back solander box of red quarter morocco with cloth sides, spine lettered directly in gilt. Inscribed by Owen's first editor and instigator of this edition, Siegfried Sassoon, to his friend, confidante, and matchmaker Edith Olivier (1872-1948).Blunden's extended edition of Owen's poems appeared eleven years after the slimmer volume edited by Siegfried Sassoon and Edith Sitwell in 1920. A war veteran and distinguished poet himself, Blunden was urged to edit the volume by Sassoon, who was never pleased with the earlier edition. '[A] more experienced and exacting editor' (Stallworthy), Blunden added thirty-seven poems to the twenty-three in the 1920 edition, as well as a memoir of Owen and notes to the poems. Like Sassoon and Sitwell, he reprints Owen's short sketch for a preface, adding the poet's own table of contents ('with its perplexities'). The edition 'helped to consolidate Owen's reputation and elevate him to the iconic status he was to hold for poets and readers of poetry in the 1930s and after' (Stallworthy); it was the volume that endeared Owen to Auden, and later Larkin.The recipient of this copy, Edith Olivier, was founder of the Women's Land Army (for which she was appointed MBE in 1920), and later mayor of Wilton from 1938 to 1941. Her duties as mayor included becoming president of the local St John Ambulance Brigade. She clearly had a talent for friendship, her friends including much of 'the artistic circle of the day' (ODNB), including Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton, and William Walton. Olivier described Sassoon as 'the best of friends', his character 'by turns violently intolerant, sympathetically appreciative, and savagely satirical. I suppose that everyone talks best in an intimate circle of friends, but this applies to Siegfried more than to anyone I know. When he does wake up and begin to talk, his conversation is very racy and amusing. He makes fun of himself as well as of other people and his descriptive powers are quite astonishing.' (Without Knowing Mr Walkley) A trusted confidante, and a mediator between Sassoon and the larger-than-life figure of his lover, Stephen Tennant, she would also help facilitate the relationship between Sassoon and his wife Hester in 1933.Olivier wrote novels, a biography of Alexander Cruden (1934), a book on Wiltshire, and her autobiography, Without Knowing Mr Walkley (1938), which remains in print. She died in 1948. 'There was honour', Cecil Beaton wrote of the mood at her funeral, 'for what she had done; but there was love for what she was and is' (Salisbury Journal).White, p. 13; Kirkpatrick B47. …