Stella & Rose's Books

AFTERMATH
Written by Harold Owen.
Stock no. 1831079
1st. 1970. Hardback. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

William Harold Owen was the younger brother and biographer of the English poet and soldier, Wilfred Owen. Harold Owen's notable trilogy Journey from Obscurity closed with the death of his elder brother Wilfred in France in November 1918. This volume continues the story and is a self-portrait, having a high degree of truth and sensitivity that characterized the earlier works; as a picture, in vivid painter's prose, of aspects of English life in the twenties, it stays in the mind. Brown cloth boards, black title label with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xi and 199 pages. ISBN: 0192111957. SIGNED by the author (with dedication) to front endpaper. Also includes an addressed postcard from Harold Owen (blank). Base of cloth boards has a thin line of fading, light damp mark to base of front board at spine edge. Text block lightly browned with a few small marks. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper has a corresponding damp stain to verso (not visible to front), is edge-rubbed and scuffed.