Owen, Wilfred and Harold
£300
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Memoirs of the Owen family by Harold Owen. London: Oxford University Press, 1963-1965. First editions, 8vo, 3 volumes, all signed by the author and dedicated to Lady Onslow, with a signed letter from Harold Owen to Lady Onslow dated July 25th 1994, apologising for not having been able to meet with her on a couple of occasions due to ill health, writing about some of his literary endeavours and offering an inscribed copy of what can be assumed to be the second volume of the Memoirs, original orange cloth, dustwrappers slightly browned along spines and a little chipped in places, price-clipped; Owen, Wilfred - Blunden, Edmund The poems of Wilfred Owen. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. 8vo, number 35 of 160 copies, signed by Blunden on page 41, portrait frontispiece, original brown cloth, slight spotting to initial pages, edges and covers; Stallworthy, Jon Wilfred Owen, a biography. London: Oxford University Press, 1974. 8vo, original orange cloth, dustwrapper slightly faded and a little rubbed and bumped in places; and 3 others relating to Wilfred and Harold Owen (8)