BLUNDEN, Edmund.

£975 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Poems. Translated from the French. First edition of one of the author's earliest publications, of which only 100 copies were printed. Accompanying the poems is a postcard from Blunden to the publisher and bookseller J. Stephens [sic] Cox, dated 2 September 1960. Stevens Cox founded the Toucan Press which published a number of Blunden's later works, including A Wessex Worthy (1960), A Corscombe Inhabitant (1963), and Guest of Thomas Hardy (1964).Kirkpatrick records that this was issued simultaneously with Poems, however Blunden notes in his postcard that "I rather think the translations came first". The pamphlet compiles 18 poems translated from the French by Blunden, who was then finishing his education at Christ's Hospital in Sussex.

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.