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Owen, Wilfred. Thirteen Poems. Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1956.

Price: US$700.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Limited to 400 copies. Near Fine in an about Very Good slipcase, some stains and tears to the paper. Quarter red leather, faded and with a few stains on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A commemorative edition published in memory of the poets tragic death near Ors, France during World War I. This collection includes the following poems: The Parable of the Old Men and the Young, Miners, Spring Offensive, Futility, My Shy Hand, Strange Meeting, Fragment: The Abyss of War, Greater Love, Apologia Pro Poemate Meo, Exposure, Six O'Clock in Princes Street, Song of Songs, Wild with All Regrets (To Siegfried Sassoon).

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.

[ANTIWAR] OWEN, Wilfred. Ben SHAHN (illus). Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen With Drawings by Ben Shahn. Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1956.

Price: US$825.00 + shipping

Description: Folio (33cm). Original morocco-backed paper-covered boards in publisher's slipcase; unpaged [28pp]. No. 43 of 365 hand-numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 35 copies with a signed proof). Frontispiece is a portrait of Wilfred Owen, drawn by Shahn and printed from a block by Leonard Baskin; text includes 15 lithographs after original illustrations by Shahn. Mild wear and soil to slipcase; touch of foxing to endpapers and flyleaves; Near Fine. Superbly produced collection of Owen's anti-war poems, accompanied by Shahn's graphic depictions of the brutality of war. The colophon states that only the first thirty-five "deluxe" copies were bound in half-leather; in fact the entire edition appears to have been bound thus; but only the "deluxe" copies include the signed proof of the Owen portrait, not present here.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Owen, Wilfred. Thirteen Poems. Gehenna Press, Northhampton, Mass, 1956.

Price: US$875.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Quarter brown morocco (hard cover), over paper boards, housed in publisher's slipcase. Unpaginated; illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of Wilfred Owen, drawn by Shahn and printed from a block by Leonard Baskin; text includes 15 lithographs after original illustrations by Shahn. Number 164 of 400 copies printed by Esther and Leonard Baskin and Richard Warren at The Gehanna Press. Pressman: Romeo Cadieux, Compositor: William Scully. This UNIQUE copy INSCRIBED by Leonard Baskin on Colophon. A tight, clean copy in a worn slipcase Size: Folio

Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

Owen, Wilfred. Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen. With Drawings by Ben Shahn. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA, 1956.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Copy number 9 (IX) of 35, bound in the publisher's half-leather binding with an extra proof on Japanese vellum bound in and signed by the artist, Ben Shahn. A Fine, unworn copy in a Very Good+ publisher's slipcase, with only trivial cracking at a few of the joints. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket. Wilfred Owen, a British soldier and poet, is best remembered for his verse about World War I. Killed in battle in 1918, most of Owen's poetry was published posthumously. Owen, along with his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, departed from the wartime verse of earlier poets who celebrated the patriotic glories of conflict. Owen and Sassoon, instead, documented the terror, destruction, and horrors of modern warfare. This edition is published by the Gehenna Press, founded by Leonard Baskin in 1942. Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen marks the first collaboration between Baskin and Richard Warren of The Metcalf Printing and Publishing Company. Drawings by Ben Shahn complement this superbly produced edition. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.