Owen (Wilfred) Poems, first edition, portrait frontispiece, lacking tissue guard, scattered spotting to half-title, frontispiece and title, light browning to endpapers, cracking to foot of upper hinge but holding firm, small sticker to front free endpaper, light erasure mark to front pastedown, book-label of Stanbrook Abbey to front pastedown, original cloth, paper label to spine, very light sunning to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, a bright and excellent example, sm. 4to, 1920.

⁂ The most important book of poetry from the first world war. The power of Owen's poetry is as significant today as it was when first written, under the encouragement of Siegfried Sassoon (who wrote the introduction to this posthumously published collection), in the trenches of Flanders, mostly in 1917 and 1918. Owen was killed one week before the armistice was signed in 1918.