WILLIAMS, Oscar (ed.).

£350 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The War Poets. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the day of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Jean Lanslow with love from Oscar Williams - editor - June 19 1945", the inscription continued by the founder of the John Day company: "And from Richard Walsh", and by two contributors, "from Hubert Creekmore" and "from Willard Maas".A party to celebrate the publication of the book was held at the Gotham Book Mart on the evening of 19 June 1945 and "many of the contributors were invited" (Filreis, p. 322). This copy of Williams's expansive anthology was presumably inscribed at the time for one of the guests.

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