The Collected Works Of Isaac Rosenberg. Poetry, Prose, Letters And Some Drawings. Edited by Gordon Bottomley & Denys Harding. With a Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon
first edition
1937 · London
by ROSENBERG, Isaac
London: Chatto & Windus, 1937. First edition. Keynes B15. Reilly p. 279. The Collected Works was issued in an edition of 500 copies, with 900 sets of sheets stored at the publisher's bindery; only 403 copies had been sold by March 1938 & the remaining unbound sheets were destroyed in April 1941 when Chatto & Windus' warehouse was bombed during the Blitz. The Collected Works became exceedingly scarce, and today it is impossible to obtain. - Cohen, Journey to the Trenches (N. Y., 1975). Killed during a night patrol near Arras in 1918, Rosenberg was one of the most promising poets & painters to die in the Great War. His war poems, such as Louse Hunting, Dead Man's Dump & Break of Day in the Trenches, rival the best poems of Owen, Graves & Sassoon. Dust jacket lightly foxed and worn and a bit dust-soiled, but a very good copy of a rare book. 8vo, frontispiece, illustrated, original russet cloth, dust jacket. Dust jacket lightly foxed and worn and a bit dust-soiled, but a very good copy of a rare book. (Inventory #: 10220)