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BLUNDEN, Edmund Charles (1896-1974). The Harbingers. Poems, [Uckfield: no publisher], 1916. Small 4° (133 x 107mm.). Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with repeated gilt floral motif and raised bands with autographed lettering-piece [?by Blunden]. Provenance: Antoinette Esher (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A6: "Issued 9 May 1916; 200 copies printed. Probably 1s." PRESENTATION COPY, the title inscribed, "to Robert Graves the Poet from E. Blunden, with due heartburnings." Blunden has added his age at the foot of the page, "aet. 19", and corrects one misprint on page 53 ('Goal' for 'Gaol') with a marginal quotation: "'Errors of Ecstasie'".
FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A6: "Issued 9 May 1916; 200 copies printed. Probably 1s." PRESENTATION COPY, the title inscribed, "to Robert Graves the Poet from E. Blunden, with due heartburnings." Blunden has added his age at the foot of the page, "aet. 19", and corrects one misprint on page 53 ('Goal' for 'Gaol') with a marginal quotation: "'Errors of Ecstasie'".