POEMS ... WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON by Owen, Wilfred - [nd. but no earlier than 1919].

New York: Huebsch, [nd. but no earlier than 1919].. Gray paper boards, stamped in gilt and blind. Photogravure frontis portrait. Tissue guard opposite portrait tanned and mildly offset to title, otherwise fine in a good example of the scarce dust jacket with half-inch loss at toe of spine, an extended span of chips and a creased tear across an 8cm portion of the top edge of the rear panel, short splits and tiny chips at the toes of the flap folds, and six old external cellotape mends. With the bookplate of John Sparrow on the front pastedown. First edition, American issue, comprised of sheets of the British edition with a special title-leaf imported into the U.S. and bound here. The number of copies made up in this fashion does not seem to be recorded in the obvious references (Keynes, for example, ignores American editions or issues of Sassoon B items in his bibliography), but one might suspect something on the order of 500 to 750 copies. Whatever the case, the book is fragile, and fine copies in any semblance of the dust jacket are much less frequently encountered than even jacketed copies of the British issue. Our ascription of date is based on the publications listed on the rear panel of the jacket. MODERN MOVEMENT 36. KEYNES (SASSOON) B2 (ref). HAYWARD 337 (ref).