[Rarebooks] FS: World War I poet Edmund Blunden's First Book, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $125   Now  $90:

BLUNDEN, E(dmund) C(harles). PASTORALS: A BOOK OF VERSES. London: 
Erskine MacDonald, 1916. First Edition. Decorated wraps; 36 pages plus 
ads. The poet's first commercially published volume, issued in the 
Little Book of Georgian Verse, Second Series, published when the poet 
was 20 and right at the time he joined the 11th Royal Sussex Regiment 
and saw active service in World War I. The same year Blunden would win 
the Military Cross for his "conspicuous gallantry in action." He was the 
longest serving war poet having spent two years in the trenches. Slight 
darkening along spine. Near Fine and largely unopened.. (#012546)        
$90.00

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