Holiday Gifts 2020

17 Holiday Gifts December 2020 Wilfred Owen’s Poems , Presentation/Association Copy Inscribed By Siegfried Sassoon To Novelist Edith Olivier 39. 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, 1931. Octavo, original purple cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7200. Click for more info First Blunden edition of Wilfred Owen’s first book of war poems, expanded by fellow war-poet Edmund Blunden from the 1920 first edition which had been edited by Siegfried Sassoon, presentation/association copy inscribed to a famous novelist and Sassoon’s friend: “Edith Olivier, from S.S. 21.3.31.” Interior fine, toning to cloth; plain dust jacket with darkened spine, otherwise in exceptional condition. “When The Cannot Becomes The Should-Not” 38. HAMMETT, Dashiell, editor. (FAULKNER, William; LOVECRAFT, H.P., et al.). Creeps by Night. Chills and Thrills Selected by Dashiell Hammett. New York, 1931. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2500. Click for more info First edition of this anthology of weird horror, selected by Dashiell Hammett, including first book appearances of “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “The Music of Erich Zann” by H.P. Lovecraft. Book near-fine, scarce original dust jacket some chipping and edge-wear, including a large chip to rear panel, very good. One Of Only 225 Copies Signed By Radclyffe Hall 37. HALL, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. New York, 1929. Two volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter silver-stamped cloth. $2000. Click for more info Signed limited edition, one of 225 copies signed by Radclyffe Hall, printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. This is the “Victory Edition,” published nine months after the first edition, to celebrate the successful defense of the work against obscenity charges in New York’s appellate court. Without scarce original slipcase. Near-fine. L i t e r a t u r e