Poems, Principally Selected from Unpublished Manuscripts

Ivor Gurney's verse, edited by Edmund Blunden (1954)

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Printing Details

First edition. Hardback, bound in red cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 23.5 × 15cm, 104pp.

This was the first book to feature a selection of Ivor Gurney's unpublished poems, and was edited by Edmund Blunden having been encouraged by Gerald and Joy Finzi to undertake the task. Ivor Gurney had died in 1937 and this book contains 76 poems.

Condition

Fair but a good reading copy. The red boards are a bit bowed, rubbed to the joints and faded to the spine. The contents are in good clean condition, bar a little finger marking to a few margins and light foxing to the prelims. The inner binding is sound but a very little bit strained in places. Nevertheless, quite a rare first edition.