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Undertones of War
Edmund Blunden, 1929
BLUNDEN, Edmund (1896-1974). Undertones of War. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929.

A presentation copy of the first American edition of the author's reflections on World War I. Inscribed to his friend and publisher on the front endpaper: "Richard Cobden-Sanderson from Edmund Blunden: or the Art of Carrying Coals to Newcastle demonstrated, April 29, 1929." One of the early works to come from the flood of English Great War books. Richard Cobden-Sanderson published the first edition of Undertones of War.

Octavo. Original black cloth, spine label (bump to lower corner). Pictorial dust jacket (spine panel faded with some wear at ends and at flap creases). Provenance: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1884-1964, printer and designer (authorial inscription).

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