£2,750.00
A significant first edition by Great War poet Edmund Blunden, enhanced by signed autograph correspondence that elevates it from a collectible work to an archival literary artifact.
Original publisher’s cloth. Condition: binding sound with normal handling; letters well preserved, folds as expected.
Year: 1922
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Thavies Inn: Richard Cobden-Sanderson
Blunden stands among the most respected literary voices to emerge from the Great War. A poet, critic, and later Oxford professor, he helped shape how the conflict would be remembered in English letters.
This copy moves beyond a simple first edition: it is accompanied by autograph correspondence signed by Blunden, giving the volume documentary weight and creating a direct bridge between the poet and his reader. Material like this lifts a book from collectible to archival.
War poets continue to attract strong institutional demand, but when signed correspondence accompanies a first edition, the work enters a far rarer category where poetry, First World War history, and autograph material converge. It is at this intersection that libraries and serious private collectors compete most intensely, making replacement increasingly difficult once such copies disappear into established collections.
