Owen (Wilfred)

Poems, FIRST EDITION, with an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon, photogravure portrait frontispiece, tissue guard and title browned and almost detached, browning to endpapers, original burgundy cloth with title label to spine, a little browned, a few creases to cloth panels, 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1920.

*** First collection of Owen's war poetry, promoted by Sassoon and Edith Sitwell. Contains all his best-known poems 'Apologia pro poemate meo', ‘Anthem for doomed youth' and 'Dulce et decorum est'.