THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WILFRED OWEN (First edition - second impression)

Wilfred Owen (Edited with an Introduction and Notes by C. Day Lewis and with a Memoir by Edmund Blunden)

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, London, 1963

Beschreibung

Second impression of the first edition thus (of the definitive edition based on a close study of the MS. sources in the British Library). Nineteen-page introduction by Cecil Day Lewis. Long memoir in appendix to rear by Edmund Blunden. ***Near fine in mustard-yellow cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on a red gilt-bordered oval to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just slightly creased. Corners sharp. No tears to the cloth. Light vertical reading crease to the spine. Internally also near fine with a neat contemporary owner's name and date to the top of the front free endpaper. No creases or tears. Pages clean with no annotations and no foxing. Spine tight. ***In a very good printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 21s net. The dustwrapper is largely complete, but there is some small loss at the top and tail of the spine and the top corner of the front panel. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. There is some rubbing and small nicks to the extremities, mainly to the top edge of the back panel. There is a small light splash mark to the front panel near the spine. The red title on the spine of the dustwrapper are only slightly faded. Dustwrapper bright. ***224mm x144mm. x prelim-pages plus 191 pages including appendices - four facsimile handwritten drafts, including final draft of 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and index of first lines to rear. ***Wilfred Owen's death in the First World War was an irreparable loss to English poetry. His war poems have kept their originality and force through the last forty years: the best of them were unequalled by any of that remarkable band of fellow-poets who fought on the Western Front, and they promised still greater things to come. ***This definitive edition of Owen's poetry, which is based on a close study of the MS. sources in the British Museum and elsewhere, contains a selection of the poet's juvenilia and several other unpublished poems, as well as all those which have appeared in the previous editions edited by Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden. The editor supplies an "apparatus criticus", giving variants made by Owen himself, and indicating where his text differs from that of the previous editors. He has also contributed a long Introduction, in which he discusses Owen's poetry and early life, making use of the poet's unpublished letters to his family. Edmund Blunden's Memoir, dealing with the war period, is reprinted as an appendix, and there are reproductions of four drafts of 'Anthem for Doomed Youth.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***Second impression of the first edition thus (of the definitive edition, based on a close study of the MS. sources in the British Library) complete in its original dustwrapper in very nice presentable condition. Of interest to literary academics and collectors of the poetry of Wilfred Owen and of First World War literature and poetry titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8345z

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WILFRED OWEN (First ...

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1963

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition