Author: MOSTYN-OWEN (David):
Title: Poems.
Description: [London] Privately Printed (Designed and produced by S. R. Fuller and W. P. Green for Truslove and Hanson in Blado Italic with titles in Poliphilus on Arnold's mould-made paper. Composition and presswork at the Chiswick Press - from the colophon). 1949. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Tall 12mo (?), 254 x 156 mms., pp. [10] 11 - 36, large black-and-white frontispiece portrait of author facing title-page, edges uncut, quarter light blue linen spine, title in gilt on spine, cream boards (slightly soiled). No. 4 of 50 copies. Lieutenant David Littleton Mostyn-Owen (1924-1945) of the 1st Battalion of the Tower Hamlets Rifles was the son of "Lt.-Col. Roger Arthur Mostyn-Owen, D.S.O, and of Margaret Eva Mostyn-Owen (nee Littleton Dewhurst), of West Felton"; the poet is buried in St. Chad Churchyard in Haughton, Staffordshire. He was educated at Hawtreys and Eton, joined the Rifle Brigade in 1942 and was commissioned in April 1944. He was killed on active service on 17th January 1945. There is no entry on David Mostyn-Owen in Catherine W. Reilly's English Poetry of the Second World War: A Biobibliography (Boston, Mass: G. K. Hall & Co., 1986). The only copy that I have located is in the BL.

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