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BLUNDEN, Edmund. Masks of time. Beaumont Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$160.80 + shipping
Description: [16], 58pp. Original publisher's quarter vellum, lettered gilt, with green and orange paper pattern boards. Fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Minor bumping to corners, spine a little sunned, internally bright save a little toning to edges. One of eighty printed on Japanese vellum, of which this is no 33. With the signatures of the author, illustrator Randolph Schwabe, and publisher Cyril William Beaumont. A further 310 copies were printed on hand-made paper, numbered 81-390. A scarce limited edition of Edmund Blunden's (1896-1974) thirteenth collection of poems, signed by author, illustrator, and publisher. Blunden had a fruitful career as a poet, publishing over thirty collections of poetry over a span of fifty-three years. He was awarded several international honours, including six separate Nobel Prize nominations. Blunden won the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry on the Western Front during the First World War, and his name rests among the Great War slate in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 58p octavo. 1/80 numbered copies printed on Japanese vellum, this copy #9 signed by Edmund Blunden, Randolph Schwabe and the publisher Cyril William Beaumont. A very good copy in vellum spine and green patterned boards, boards with a touch of wear at the corners. Laid in is a 4 page prospectus plus a handwritten note from the illustrator Randolph.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$289.43 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1925. From the Library of Siegfried Sassoon and Sold by Sotheby’s in 1991. The book carries the Sassoon monogram fixed to the inside front cover by Sotheby’s, to prove its provenance. Limited signed editions of 80 copies this being number 13. Printed on Japanese vellum and signed by Blunden, Schwabe and Cyril William Beaumont (the publisher) Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request.Ref15213
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom