poems introduction siegfried sassoon von owen (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. 6 7/8 inches x 8 6/8 inches; half-title; frontispiece photographic portrait of Owen in uniform, printed in sepia, with the tissue guard present; title-page; introduction by Siegfried Sassoon; short preface by Owen; contents; second half-title; [12]pp., pp 33, with printer's name on the reverse of p. 33. Original publisher's maroon red cloth printed paper title label on the spine. The tissue guard shows very slight browning, with slight offsetting to the title-page light tanning to endpapers light wear and slight tanning to the spine title label, top corners very slightly bumped. A very good copy of the second edition of the author's only book, the finest collection of WWI verse. With rather tatty, used original good only d/w with loss at spine and rear. Front cover of the jacket has the Sassoon quote - "He was a man of absolute integrity of mind. He never wrote his poems (as so many poems did) to make the effect of a personal gesture. He pitied others; he did not pity himself. In the last year of his life he attained a clear vision of what he needed to say, and these poems survive him as his true and splendid testament." Connolly, The Modern Movement 36. Printed by Morrison and Gibb Ltd. Edinburgh.

First edition. First edition. Photogravure frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard. ix, 33 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. 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 observes: "This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, dominion or power, except War. Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.". Keynes, B2; Connolly 100, 36; Hayward, 337 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 Photogravure frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard. ix, 33 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to.

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.

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait (coming away slightly at head, but secure), tissue-guard with offset browning to title-page, the latter also with a couple of spots to fore-margin, pp. ix, [1], 33, 4to, original red cloth, backstrip with printed label, slightly faded at ends with a little wear, a little bubbling to cloth and corners slightly bumped, faint partial browning to free endpapers, light vertical crease to flyleaf, the front pastedown with the bookplate of author Richard Adams, laid in the remains of the dustjacket (the whole of its front panel, heavily browned and spotted but with flap still attached, the rear flap also present), good. The copy of author Richard Adams, whose library included a good collection of First World War poetry - the present volume perhaps the most notable. A fragile book, this copy retains remnants of the elusive dustjacket. His early interest in Owen's verse is evinced by his selection of a contemporary edition of the 'Poems' when a schoolboy at Bradfield College (see below). [With:] Owen (Wilfred) The Poems. Edited, with a memoir and notes by Edmund Blunden. [The Phoenix Library.] Chatto & Windus, 1933, faint spotting to half-title, pp. vii, 135, 16 [Publisher's catalogue,] foolscap 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little faded with tiny nick at head, the upper board with the crest of Bradfield College, prize label of same to front pastedown, presenting this as the Denning Prize in 1936 to 'R.G. Adama [i.e., the novelist, Richard Adams], good.

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.