8vo. 53pp [3]. One of 325 copies on handmade paper (numbered 81-405), this no. 231. Original publisher's cloth-backed decorated paper boards, lettered in gilt. Illustrations and decorations throughout designed by Randolph Schwabe. All edges untrimmed. Cloth a little stained and sunned, paper remains bright with slight bumping to corners.

The limited edition of Edmund Blunden's (1896-1974) eighteenth collection of poetry. Blunden had a fruitful career as a poet, publishing over thirty collections of poetry over a span of fifty three years. He was awarded several international honours, including six separate Nobel Prize nominations. Blunden won the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry on the Western Front during WWI, and his name rests among the Great War slate in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.