Poems, With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon, 1st edition, Chatto & Windus, 1920, photogravure portrait frontispiece, with tissue guard (offset to frontispiece and title-page), rough-trimmed, bookplate of Richard Adams, free endpapers partially toned (that at front with vertical crease), original red cloth, spine (with paper title label) faded and frayed at ends, with remains of frayed and spotted dustjacket (front panel and flap, and rear flap), slim 4to Hayward 337. Scarce first edition of arguably the greatest collection of First World War poetry ever published. Edited by Siegfried Sassoon and issued posthumously, 'Poems' contains some of the most poignant English verse, including 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'. The dustjacket rarely appears in any form. Richard Adams was no stranger to the horrors of war, having lived through the Second World War, interrupting his studies at Oxford University to serve in the Royal Army Service Corps. Although he didn't himself come under enemy fire, he writes movingly in his autobiography of the hardships endured by many, and the loss of his closest friends when he returned to Oxford and found a changed world from the halcyon one he had left. (1)
Poems, With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon, 1st edition, Chatto & Windus, 1920, photogravure portrait frontispiece, with tissue guard (offset to frontispiece and title-page), rough-trimmed, bookplate of Richard Adams, free endpapers partially toned (that at front with vertical crease), original red cloth, spine (with paper title label) faded and frayed at ends, with remains of frayed and spotted dustjacket (front panel and flap, and rear flap), slim 4to Hayward 337. Scarce first edition of arguably the greatest collection of First World War poetry ever published. Edited by Siegfried Sassoon and issued posthumously, 'Poems' contains some of the most poignant English verse, including 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'. The dustjacket rarely appears in any form. Richard Adams was no stranger to the horrors of war, having lived through the Second World War, interrupting his studies at Oxford University to serve in the Royal Army Service Corps. Although he didn't himself come under enemy fire, he writes movingly in his autobiography of the hardships endured by many, and the loss of his closest friends when he returned to Oxford and found a changed world from the halcyon one he had left. (1)
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