Edith Sitwell [Wilfred Owen] – Wheels 1919 – Fourth Cycle – First appearance of Owen’s Poetry
£1,500.00
A first edition, first printing, published by C. Daniel in 1919. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards featuring a magnificent colour design by William Roberts who also contributes colour decorations to the endpapers and pastedowns. Printed paper spine label. The boards somewhat dust soiled, and with some rubbing to the corner tips. A short crease to the tip of one text leaf, and a little very occasional fox spotting. A small area of paper residue to the fore edge of the front pastedown where a small sticker would appear to have been removed. Former owner gift inscription pencilled to the title verso. A very good copy.
‘Wheels : The Fourth Cycle’, is dedicated to the memory of Wilfred Owen, M.C.’. This was the first publication to print seven of Owen s poems together for the very first time : The Show , Strange Meeting , Á Terre , The Sentry , Disabled , The Dead Beat and The Chances . Only five poems were published in Owen’s lifetime (Three in ‘The Nation’ and two that appeared anonymously in the ‘Hydra’, a journal he edited in 1917 when he was a patient at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh). Owen’s poems were not to be published as a complete volume until the following year in 1920, when they were published by Chatto and edited by Siegfried Sassoon. It is interesting to note that the book includes five-page of ‘Press Notices’, none of which so much as mentions Owen). Other contributors include, Aldous Huxley, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and assorted Sitwells.
(We don't keep all of our stock in the shop, so send us an email if you're planning a trip to see a particular author or book.)
- Description
Description
A first edition, first printing, published by C. Daniel in 1919. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards featuring a magnificent colour design by William Roberts who also contributes colour decorations to the endpapers and pastedowns. Printed paper spine label. The boards somewhat dust soiled, and with some rubbing to the corner tips. A short crease to the tip of one text leaf, and a little very occasional fox spotting. A small area of paper residue to the fore edge of the front pastedown where a small sticker would appear to have been removed. Former owner gift inscription pencilled to the title verso. A very good copy.
‘Wheels : The Fourth Cycle’, is dedicated to the memory of Wilfred Owen, M.C.’. This was the first publication to print seven of Owen s poems together for the very first time : The Show , Strange Meeting , Á Terre , The Sentry , Disabled , The Dead Beat and The Chances . Only five poems were published in Owen’s lifetime (Three in ‘The Nation’ and two that appeared anonymously in the ‘Hydra’, a journal he edited in 1917 when he was a patient at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh).
Owen’s poems were not to be published as a complete volume until the following year in 1920, when they were published by Chatto and edited by Siegfried Sassoon. It is interesting to note that the book includes five-page of ‘Press Notices’, none of which so much as mentions Owen). Other contributors include, Aldous Huxley, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and assorted Sitwells.
