Lot 311
Blunden, Edmund. Retreat. New Sonnets and Poems, number 46 of 112 signed copies on hand-made paper, with two notes loosely inserted, from Michael Barford, (English cricketer, born 1950), presenting the volume to Dennis Silk, original cloth, dust-jacket torn and repaired, uncut, Thavies Inn: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1928; Near and Far New Poems, first edition, inscribed on front flyleaf, "In Dennis Silk's copy a belated inscription "can now be disclosed" with the kindest wishes of his friend Edmund Blunden at Heytesbury 10 August 1961", original cloth, some spotting, mostly to uncut edges, dust-jacket browned, London: Cobden-Sanderson 1929; Poems of Many Years, inscribed on front flyleaf, "With kindest wishes and admirations to Dennis Silk, from Edmund Blunden 7 Novr. 1957", and 5 line quote from the poem Cricket, I Confess, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipped at head and tail and lightly browned, London: Collins, 1957; with another volume and a pamphlet by the same author, inscribed to Dennis Silk, 8vo (5)
