Sassoon, Siegfried
Group of works by Sassoon and books from his library
£819
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Sassoon, Siegfried. The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, one of 2,000 copies, small 8vo, original red cloth with printed paper labels to spine and front board, with the dust jacket, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light spotting to edges of textblock and to last few leaves, dust jacket spine toned and rubbed and with a little fraying to head, short closed tear to upper inner corner of front panel, a few small nicks and marks;
Idem. [The Sherston trilogy:] Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber and Gwyer Limited [volumes 2-3: Faber and Faber Limited], 1928-30-36. First editions, first impressions, 8vo, original blue cloth, with the dust jackets, Fox-Hunting Man with penciled ownership inscription of one J. S. M. Bisdee (recorded as a student at St John's College, Cambridge in the 1910s), spotting to endpapers and a few creases and tears to dust jacket, Infantry Officer with light spotting to edges of textblock, dust jacket with a few spots and nicks, Sherston's Progress jacket with a few nicks, spots and marks;
Idem. The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1917. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original boards, rebacked retaining original spine-label (with minor loss), errata slip to contents leaf, housed in custom morocco-backed solander box;
Aldington, Richard. Images of War. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original board's, Siegfried Sassoon's posthumous monogram book-label to front pastedown;
De La Mare, Walter. Bells and Grass. [And:] Love. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1941-3. 2 works, first editions, first impressions, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, each with Siegfried Sassoon's posthumous monogram book-label to front pastedown, Love misbound with pp. 129-192 bound in after p. 16 (7)