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Owen, Wilfred. 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. First Edition. Original Publishers Cloth. Very Good. vii, 135pp. Purple cloth lettered on spine in gilt. Errata slip present. Inscribed (one week before his death) forthe playwright Alfred Sutro: “To Alfred Sutro, from H. E. A. Northcott & Geoffrey Dearmer, who agree about Wilfred Owen, September 4th 1933”. Dearmer was himself a respected WW1 poet & Northcott a critic who wrote for The Review of English Studies. Offsetting at endpapers. Sunned at spine as well as head & spine edge of rear board. Rubbed at edges with slight loss at head & tail of spine; lettering unaffected. Interesting association copy.