Wilfred Owen
Carr did not report in his History of the QTP having published a solo edition of the poems of Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), he only reported the back-to-back editions with Rupert Brooke. Only one impression has been seen, but with a variant containing 4 blank pages: pages 6-7 and 10-11. If all text was printed on a single sheet of paper which was then cut into 8 leaves to be collated and stapled together, perhaps the whole print run was printed like this and it had to be reprinted? If so, then there are two impressions: the first with 4 blank pages, then a second, complete impression, with all 16 printed pages.
(Last updated on 17/11/2020)
SBP-OWE1a: First edition, first impression
Title: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 1968?
ISBN: None
Size: 125 x 95 mm
Pages: 16
Staples: one
Binding: white printed glossy card covers
Paper: white
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: (J.L. Carr) over drawing of Lord Kitchener by Alfred Leete
Internal illustrations: none
Number in series: not stated
Colophon: sun face 1964 with name above and address below
Telephone number: 4995
Printing history: none given
Number of other titles listed: 8
Printed by: Harry Richardson (Printers) Limited, Water Street, Kettering
Content: Dates of birth and death, quotation. Poems: Anthem for doomed youth; Asleep; The parable of the old man and the young; The end; (2 blank pages); Strange meeting; (2 blank pages); The send-off; Dulce et decorum est; Bugles sang.
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)
Notes: This impression contains 4 blank pages. Only eight titles are listed inside the rear cover, so it is one of the earliest titles that Carr published, probably in the early 1970s. It was not allocated an ISBN.
SBP-OWE1b: First edition, 2nd impression
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year:
ISBN: None
Size: 125 x 95 mm
Pages: 16
Staples: one
Binding: white printed glossy card covers
Paper: white
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: (J.L. Carr) over drawing of Lord Kitchener by Alfred Leete
Internal illustrations: none
Number in series: not stated
Colophon: sun face 1964 with name above and address below
Telephone number: 4995
Printing history: none given
Number of other titles listed: 8
Printed by: Harry Richardson (Printers) Limited, Water Street, Kettering
Content: Dates of birth and death, quotation. Poems:; Anthem for doomed youth; Asleep; The parable of the old man and the young; The end; Futility; At a Ca;vary near the Ancre; Strange meeting; Greater love; The send-off; Dulce et decorum est; Bugles sang.
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)
Notes: This impression contains the poems Futility, At a Calvary near the Ancre, and Greater love, and no blank pages. Otherwise it is identical to the first impression.