OWEN, WILFRED. POEMS. Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. Square 8vo, original cloth, paper spine label, spine slightly faded; compartmented

sleeve, imaginative 1/2 morocco slipcase. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920 FIRST EDITION of the author's posthumous first book. "Owen, who was killed in the very last week of the war, had the genius to come through the rage and frustration or even the dearth of feeling of many war-poets and so to write the first understanding poems about the shell-shocked, about gas, about the enemy." --Connolly, The Modern Movement 36.