Wilfred owen poems dust jacket

Poems... with an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon, first edition, pencil ownership signature of "E.H. ?Joswell", publisher's cloth, paper spine label, slightly faded at extremities, dust-jacket a little browned, some short tears at edges, corners chipped, 4to, Chatto & Windus, 1920

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The posthumously published first edition of perhaps the finest volume of anti-war poetry to emerge from the War. Owen wrote nearly all of his poems between August 1917 and September 1918, but in November of that year he was killed in action at the age of twenty-five, just one week before the Armistice. This slim volume, promoted and published by Sassoon after Owen's death, with the support of Edith Sitwell, contains all of Owen's best known poems, including 'Dulce et Decorum est', 'Insensibility', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and 'Futility'.

Provenance: bought by the present owner from the estate of the late Rolf O. Barber, a schoolteacher at Oundle who tutored Sas