Balcon, Jill
| Title |
The Pity of War. Poets of the First World War |
| Date |
London 1985 |
| Publisher |
Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd |
Description
First Edition, with a Preface by Edward Carpenter. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Small Quarto. pp. xii, 68. The poems are selected with an Introduction by Jill Balcon, the wife of a former Poet Laureate, C Day Lewis. Poems by Rochard Aldington, David Jones, Laurence Binyon, Robert Nichols, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Herbert Read, Wilfrid Gibson, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Julian Grenfell, Charles Sorley, Ivor Gurney and Edward Thomas. These poets were chosen because they are named on the memorial in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Condition
A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped, with the publisher's typed price-label of £7.95 overlaying the published price of £6.50.
