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75 NEVINSON, C. R. W. Modern War Paintings. London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917 the mechanization of war First edition, first impression, signed by the artist in pencil below the colour frontispiece. “Having gone to France with the Red Cross and been invalided home soon afterwards, he announced that he would be using ‘Futurist technique’ to express the reality of war in his new work. In subsequent paintings Nevinson confirmed that he saw the Great War essentially as a tragic event. Bleak, outspoken and often angry, his paintings of 1915–16 are among the masterpieces of his career, bravely opposing the prevailing jingoistic tendency” (Tate online). Quarto. Original green cloth-backed green boards, paper label to spine and front cover. Remains of dust jacket loosely inserted. Colour frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, 24 monochrome plates. Head and tail of spine a little sunned, front cover only slightly sprung. A very good copy. £2,000 [140292] 76 OWEN, Wilfred. Poems. With an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. New York: B. W. Huebsch, [1920] 1921 a beautiful example of the dust jacket
First edition, US issue bound from the original UK sheets with the US cancel title page in the subsequent year, very scarce in such a sharp dust jacket. This American edition was taken up by the notably modernist B. W. Huebsch, the American publisher of James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence.
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