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TWO PRIVATELY PRINTED SASSOONS, FROM THE LIBRARY OF DENNIS SILK 36. Melodies [SASSOON, Siegfried] [Privately printed for the author at the] Chiswick Press, 1912. First edition. Original publish- er’s blue wrappers bound with string, lettered in black. Title printed in red and black, woodcut printer’s device on colophon. A very good copy indeed. [41804] £2,500 One of Sassoon’s rarest works limited to only 35 copies. Introduced by a mutual friend, the writer Edmund Blunden, Dennis and Sassoon became and stayed fast friends, united by a love of liter- ature and a mutual devotion to cricket. PROVENANCE: Dennis Silk (1931-2019), one of Sassoon’s closest friends in later life, his book- plate to front pastedown. 37. Discoveries SASSOON, Siegfried Privately Published by the Author, 1915. First edition. A single sewn quire of eight leaves. Oneoffiftycopies,printedonVanGelderZonen,privatelypublishedbytheauthor.Orig - inal greenpaperwrappers, printed in black. Avery good copy, lightly foxed and creased to the edges of the wrappers and a neat internal repair to the spine. [41811] £2,000 Written and published whilst on leave, having broken his arm on service with the Sussex Yeo- manry, it contains some of best regarded of Sassoon’s ‘paradise’ poetry, and sees the first appear - ance of several of the works chosen for his first commercially issued collection of poems, The Old Huntsman & Other Poems , published in 1917. PROVENANCE: Dennis Silk (1931-2019, bookplate to inside cover).
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