The Heart's Journey

Limited first edition. Tall 8vo. Pp. [iii], 28, [1]. Quarter linen cream cloth over blue paper covered boards; blue paper spine label, printed on rectos only. 1/590 copies on rag paper (250 of which for the UK, with the rest for the US market distributed by Random House), printed by William Edwin Rudge. Typography by Bruce Rogers.

A fine copy.

A collection of poems. The subsequent trade edition published by William Heinemann in 1928 added seven poems to this selection. Awarded the Military Cross, for bravery in the field, Sassoon embarrassed the government in 1917 when his "Soldier's Declaration" against the continuation of the war was read out in Parliament.

[Keynes A28a]