James Cummins Bookseller

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1944.

Price: $2,000.00

About the item

Advance proof, first edition. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue wrappers with titles in black; some soiling to wraps, partial splitting. Edmund Blunden's initials in pencil on upper and his annotations on p. 8 and p. 12, housed in a collector's blue clamshell box with gilt title label on spine, made by Arthur Johnson; a good copy with an interesting association. Gallup A45.

Item #365555

Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was an English poet, author, and critic known for his writing about World War I. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.