Sassoon, Siegfried
Three works
£504
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth, paper labels to spine and front board, edges untrimmed, dust jacket, spine slightly rolled, section of sunning to head of spine (with corresponding section of loss to dust jacket), small water stain to top edge of text-block, a few spots internally, dust jacket spine discoloured, price scored through in ink, short closed tear to foot of front panel;
Counter-Attack and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author 'Eileen Power, from Siegfried Sassoon, Jan. 1919' on the half-title, 8vo, original card wrappers, spine crudely tape-repaired, errata supplied in pencil;
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber & Faber Limited 1930. First edition, one of 750 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine and head of front board sunned
Footnote
Note: The recipient of this copy of Counter-Attack is likely to be the noted economic and medieval historian Eileen Power (1889-1940). It may have been her involvement in peace movements after the war which brought her into contact with Sassoon.