Wilfred; Edmund BLUNDEN ( editor ). The Poems of Wilfred Owen: A New Edition, Including Many Pieces Now First Published, and Notices of His Life and Work, by Edmund Blunden. London: Chatto & Windus. 1

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£2,500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Uncovering the ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ Surrounding Owen’s Homosexuality OWEN, Wilfred; Edmund BLUNDEN ( editor ). The Poems of Wilfred Owen: A New Edition, Including Many Pieces Now First Published, and Notices of His Life and Work, by Edmund Blunden. London: Chatto Windus. 1931. [ with :] COHEN, Joseph, Owen Agonistes. [ Privately printed offprint from: ] English Literature in Transition vol. VIII, no. 5, December 1965. S.l.: s.n. [Not before 1965.] Cohen : 8vo. Pale blue printed card wrappers, stapled as issued; pp. 24. With accompanying envelope addressed to Cohen in typescript ‘from Professor Blunden’, typescript letter from Blunden to Cohen (175 x 135 mm, single leaf, pp. [2]) dated 12 January 1967 and signed ‘E. Blunden’, and facsimile typescript letter from Cohen to Blunden dated 12 December 1966 (280 x 215 mm, see below ). Owen : 8vo. Original brown buckram over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, tail- and fore-edges untrimmed, partly unopened; pp. [ii], vii, [1 (blank)], 135, [1 (blank)]; photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard; light spotting to endpapers and prelims, spine ends slightly rubbed; a very good copy. No. 11 of 160 ‘special edition’ copies (of which 150 were for sale) of the first edition of Edmund Blunden’s landmark edition of Wilfred Owen’s poems, this copy signed by Blunden at the foot of his biography of the poet; offered with Blunden’s copy of the scarce offprint of Joseph Cohen’s controversial pamphlet, Owen Agonis

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