A catalogue of association copies of the work of Siegfried Sassoon.
SIEGFRIED SASSOON His Friends & Enemies
JONKERS RARE BOOKS A Catalogue Of Association Copies
Friends And Lovers
THERESA THORNYCROFT
Siegfried Sassoon’s mother, Theresa Thornycroft (1853-1947) was a sculptor and painter. Brought up in an artistic family, she was the daughter of two prominent Victorian sculptors, Thomas and Mary Thornycroft. She married Sassoon’s fa- ther, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, in January 1884, and bought Weirleigh, a neo-Gothic house in a Kent village. In the following years they had three children; Michael in 1884; Siegfried in 1886; and Hamo in 1887. In their early years, her sons referred to her as ‘Mamsy’, and later, both in person and in correspondence, as ‘Ash’ (“a family legend has the latter name as a tease deriving from a chatty cleaning lady called Mrs Ash” Egremont ). She is immortalised in Sassoon’s fictionalised autobiographical trilogy (the third volume of which is offered opposite), as ‘Aunt Evelyn’. Writing to her son on the publication of its first volume, she said that the characterisation of Aunt Evelyn was “just what a boy would see”. Sassoon confided that his creation was “only a very faint portrait of a very small part of your character”, but that it was “the greatest joy to me when you enjoy my writings”.
INSCRIBED FOR HIS MOTHER
1. Sherston’s Progress SASSOON, Siegfried Faber & Faber, 1936. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered gilt. Inscribed by Sassoon for his mother on the half-title, “Dearest Ash, with love from Sig.” A very good copy. [42554] £5,000 An exceptional association copy, inscribed by Sassoon for his mother Theresa Thornycroft. She is immortalised in the present autobiography and its preceding volumes, as the much loved and influential character of “Aunt Evelyn”. She was very fond of the series, writing of its first volume: “It is a masterpiece of prose. How you have preserved in a sort of amber made up of sunlight of the last years of dear old simple English life. That happy human time is gone”. Sassoon responded to this letter by saying that it was “the greatest joy to me when you enjoy my writings”. PROVENANCE: Georgina Theresa Thornycroft, 1853-1947, painter (authorial inscription); Siegfried Sassoon (Sotheby’s, 15 October 1982, lot 46).
CHILDHOOD FRIENDS
The two books opposite were inscribed in middle-age for childhood friends with whom Sassoon had stayed in contact into adulthood. Marjorie Forster (nee Stirling), grew up in nearby Goudhurst in an impressive Queen Anne house called Finchhurst, which features in an unfinished Sassoon short story called ‘A Beginning’, as well as in The Old Century . They remained in touch for the rest of their lives, and she wrote her last letter to Sassoon just four weeks before his death. Henry F. Thompson met Sassoon at Marlborough, and is noted in Egremont’s biography as being one of Sassoon’s better friends from his schooldays. Later, Thompson became a tea planter in Ceylon, but he and Sassoon met and corre- sponded through the 1920s. In 1926, while Sassoon was struggling with a section of his Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man , a dinner with Thompson and discussion of the old days helped alleviate writer’s block, and yielded a further 500 words on his return home.
INSCRIBED WITH AN ALS 2. Lingual Exercises For Advanced Vocabularians With An Autograph Letter Signed [SASSOON, Siegfried] Privately printed at the University Press, 1925. First edition, one of 99 copies. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Inscribed by Sassoon for Marjorie Forster, and signed with his monogram. With: A single-page autograph letter from Sassoon to Forster, dated April 24th [1925]: “My dear Marjorie, I heard that you were abroad, but am sending my new book to greet you on your return. I hope you will find a few things in it to give you plea - sure & remind you of your old friend (who has thought of you many times lately but felt unable to write to you). If any of my poems are any good they are the best consolation that I can offer my friends. And life is full of troubles, isn’t it - for all of us? Yrs ever, SS.” [41805] £1,750 A fine association copy, with an accompanying letter, inscribed for his childhood friend Mar - jorie Forster.
Lingual Exercises is a scarce collection of poetry, ostensibly anonymous, but privately published by Sassoon for distribution amongst his friends. Writing later to his publisher about including some verses from this work in a collection, Sassoon states, “I have done with verbal gymnastics in the future. Being smart don’t suit me, really. But it was a phase that had to be worked out...”
“FROM HIS OLD FRIEND”
3. Sherston’s Progress SASSOON, Siegfried
Faber & Faber, 1936. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered gilt, in the blue printed dustwrapper. Inscribed by Sassoon on the half-title, “H. F. Thompson. From his very (and affectionate) old friend Siegfried Sassoon. Heytesbury. Dec. 16. 1936.” A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper, some toning and wear to spine. [41573] £1,250 An excellent association copy. H. F. Thompson was a childhood friend of Sassoon’s, whom he met at Henley House. Sassoon much pre - ferred Henley House to Marlborough, as Egremont notes in his biography of Sassoon: “In this gentler place Sassoon made greater friends than at Marlborough: Henry Thompson from Cumberland, again a golfer with a ‘delightful cronyish quality’.” Later, when Sassoon was wrestling with his first volume of autobiography, Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man , he dined with Thompson. Egremont notes that “On 21 November [1926] he could not work, an accumulation of insomnia and low spirits, then after dinner with H. F. Thompson, a childhood friend, talk about the memoirs led to another 500 words”.
STEPHEN TENNANT
Stephen Tennant, whom Sassoon met in 1927, was one of the great loves of his life. The attraction was instant, and after their first weekend together Sassoon recorded in his diary that Tennant “seems to me the most enchanting creature I have ever met”. The following year he would record in his diary that “I ask nothing but to be near him always” and that with Tennant, he knew “perfect happiness”. Tennant was one of the great aesthetes of his age, and among the brightest of the bright young things, inspiring Sebastian Flyte of Brideshead Revisited , and Cedric Hampton of Love In A Cold Climat e. Their relationship continued and grew closer through the composition and publi- cation of Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man . They were touring Europe together when the book was published, and excitedly received and read the positive reviews in whichever English language newspapers they could lay their hands on.
INSCRIBED FOR STEPHEN TENNANT
4. Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man [SASSOON, Siegfried]
Faber and Gwyer, 1928. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth in the original dustwrapper. Inscribed by Sassoon for Stephen Tennant on the half-title, “To Stephen with love from the author.” A good copy, triangular gouge to lower cover, in a good dustwrapper, a little chipped and worn, with splits to the upper joint. [42555] £9,500 An extraordinary association copy, inscribed by Sassoon to his great love Stephen Tennant. They had met in the summer of 1927, while Sassoon was working on the present book, his first volume of memoirs. After spending their first weekend together and beginning their affair, Sassoon recorded in his diary that Tennant “seems to me the most enchanting creature I have ever met”. The following year he would record in his diary that “I ask nothing but to be near him always”, and that with Tennant he knew “perfect happiness”. Sassoon shared excerpts of the manuscript with Tennant throughout its composition, noting on 11th January 1928 that Stephen “adored” what he had read. By publication in September 1928, they were touring Europe together, and while in Venice managed to secure a copy of The Observer to read J. C. Squire’s positive review. Published anonymously and without dedication, this copy is certainly inscribed to the most important person in Sassoon’s life at the time. Keynes A30a. PROVENANCE: Stephen Tennant (artist and socialite, 1906-1987); William S. Reese (bookseller and noted Sassoon collector, 1955-2018).
INSCRIBED FOR STEPHEN TENNANT’S BIBLIOPHILE GARDENERS
5. The Memoirs Of George Sherston Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man; Memoirs Of An Infantry Officer; Sherston’s Progress SASSOON, Siegfried
Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First American collected edition. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered and decorated black and gilt, in the pictorial dustwrapper by Haberstock. Inscribed by Sassoon for Beryl and Eileen Hunter, “Beryl and Eileen for their collec - tion of S. S. editions” to first blank. Also with Sassoon’s additional annotation “(For this Americanism in book production!)” to the foot of prefatory note. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper, a little dusty with a short closed tear to the upper panel and some light edge wear. [41577] £1,250 Beryl and Eileen Hunter were gardeners for Stephen Tennant at Wilsford. They began collecting Sassoon’s work prior to meeting him, but after he began his love affair with Tennant in the 1920s, they became regular correspondents, and Sassoon would gift them inscribed copies of his work.
HESTER GATTY
Sassoon met his wife Hester Gatty in June 1933 at a pageant at Wilton celebrat- ing the tercentenary of George Herbert’s death. They spoke a little, and Sassoon recorded in his diary that she was “a charming young lady” who “looked delightful in a lavender coloured silk dress”. They did not see each other again until the September, when Sassoon noticed a beautiful young woman sat near Fitz House with a sketchbook. She came over and introduced herself, reminding him of their meeting months before. He asked her to dinner, and they both fell deeply in love in the coming months, with Sassoon writing in October, “I believe that my whole life has been a prepara- tion for the moment when I met you & know, in my soul, that we were made for one another. You, the first woman I have ever loved”. They married in a small wedding on 18th December 1933, Glen Byam Shaw was best man, with T. E. Lawrence, Rex Whistler and Geoffrey Keynes also in attend - ance. Two weeks after the wedding, on New Year’s Day, Sassoon inscribed the book offered opposite, before setting off on their honeymoon on January 26th.
HIS WIFE’S COPY 6. Lingual Exercises For Advanced Vocabularians [SASSOON, Siegfried]
Privately printed at the University Press, 1925. First edition, one of 99 copies. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Sassoon’s wife’s copy, inscribed by him on the limitation page “Hester’s Copy, January 1st 1934”. A near fine copy. [41568] £2,000 An excellent association copy and relic of Sassoon’s passionate early relationship with his wife.
OTTOLINE MORRELL
Ottoline Morrell was the patron par excellence of the artists and writers of Sas- soon’s cultural and literary mileu. She became aware of him when she read his poem ‘To Victory’ in The Times on 15 January 1916, and traced him through Edmund Gosse. She immediately wrote to him of her pleasure at finding “in the dark prison-like days a sympathetic de - sire - to fly out beyond into the beauty and colour and freedom that one so longs for”( Egremont ). While her initial interest in the young poet was not purely literary (writing in her journal in August 1916, “I love him - and long and long for him”), she did much to support his work during his rise to fame, including cajoling Virginia Woolf into writing a positive review of The Old Huntsman , thinking that if he “heard his work had ‘Promise’ it might make him want to live”.
INSCRIBED FOR HIS EARLY SUPPORTER, OTTOLINE MORRELL
7. Lingual Exercises For Advanced Vocabularians [SASSOON, Siegfried]
Privately printed at the University Press, 1925. First edition, one of 99 copies. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Lady Ottoline Morrell with the author’s monogram. A near fine copy, with just a touch of tanning to the spine. [40852] £2,500 A meaningful association copy. Ottoline Morrell was one of the most significant figures in Sassoon’s life as his war poems began to gain popularity. One of the verses, ‘To An Old Lady, Dead’, is annotated, presumably by Morrell’s son Julian, “My Grandmother H.A.Morrell”.
INSCRIBED WITHIN A WEEK OF PUBLICATION
8. Complete Set Of His ‘Ariel Poems’ Comprising: Nativity; To My Mother; In Sicily; To The Red Rose SASSOON, Siegfried
Faber and Faber, 1927-1931. Signed first editions of all of Sassoon’s Ariel Poems publications, from the library of Ottoline Morrell. The first two volumes signed by Sassoon to the frontispieces. The second two are each one of 400 copies signed by Sassoon. Colour frontispieces by Paul Nash and Stephen Tennant. A very good set, with some light wear and splits to the spine of To My Mother. [42574] £1,250
NELLIE BURTON
Nellie Burton, known affectionately as ‘Dame Nellie’ in literary circles, hosted and cared for some of the great writers of her age. Her introduction into the literary world came through being Robbie Ross’s moth- er’s maid, but she would later host Sassoon, Ross and other writers in London at her residence for single gentlemen on 40 Half Moon Street. Sassoon was very fond of her, as she was of him, calling him “my beloved Saint Siegfried”. When Sassoon was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for the book of- fered opposite, Burton, along with Edith Olivier and Edmund Blunden, attended the ceremony as his representatives.
INSCRIBED WITHIN A WEEK OF PUBLICATION
9. Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man SASSOON, Siegfried; NICHOLSON, William
Faber & Faber, 1929. First illustrated edition. Original publisher’s white cloth with black lettering, and red and black dec- orations, in pictorial dustwrapper. Inscribed by Sassoon on the half-title, “Dame Nellie Burton, from SS, Nov 5th 1929”. Pictorial endpapers. Seven two-tone woodcut plates under tissue guards, and numerous head- and tail-pieces throughout. A very good copy, light splash to cover, in a good dustwrapper, a little chipped and worn. [42556] £2,250 Nellie Burton met Siegfried Sassoon through Robbie Ross, and had formerly been Ross’s mother’s maid. At the time of making Sassoon’s acquaintance, she was Ross’s landlady, housing him on the first floor of 40 Half Moon Street: “She was a huge, forthright woman whom Sassoon came to adore - she called him ‘my beloved Saint Siegfried’ - and a fierce protector of her ‘gentlemen’ lodgers” ( Egremont ). Keynes A30d.
WALTER DE LA MARE
De La Mare was an important early influence on Sassoon’s poetry, and Sassoon found his work a great comfort during the war. Indeed, on June 3rd 1918, after reading some of De La Mare’s poems while sitting by some French graves, he wrote in his notebook the short poem ‘On reading de la Mare’s poems after the day’s work’. Their work appeared alongside each other in the 1916-17 and 1918-19 volumes of Eddie Marsh’s ‘Georgian Poetry’, and Sassoon’s first visit to De La Mare in Hert - fordshire shortly followed the publication of the 1919 volume. Their friendship grew in the post-war years, and in his 1924 poem ‘Cary Castle,’ inspired by a visit with De La Mare, he imagined them as “two poets at the edge of time”. When a plaque to De La Mare was installed at St. Paul’s after his death, it was Sassoon who unveiled it, and wore for the occasion Lascelles Abercrombie’s over- coat, in true nostalgia for the days of the Georgian poets.
INSCRIBED FOR ONE OF HIS GREATEST INFLUENCES
10. The Old Century And Seven More Years SASSOON, Siegfried
Faber and Faber, 1938. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth, lettered gilt, in the original dustwrapper. Inscribed by Sassoon for Walter De La Mare, with reference to the latter’s poem ‘Old Ben’, “Dear Old Ben from his old friend S.S. Heytesbury. Sept. 25, 1938”. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, light toning to spine. [41574] £2,250 An exceptional presentation copy from Sassoon to his close collaborator and fellow Georgian poet Walter De La Mare. PROVENANCE: Walter De La Mare (1873-1956).
DENNIS SILK
Dennis Silk was one of Sassoon’s closest friends in later life, and their friendship was bonded by a love of literature and a mutual devotion to the game of cricket. This is shown above, where Blunden, Sassoon and Silk listen to commentary of the test match on the radio, as well as in their correspondence. They met in late May 1953 at Fenner’s cricket ground in Cambridge, and enjoyed fourteen years of friendship at the end of Sassoon’s life. Silk would spend holidays at Heytesbury and they would stay up for hours talking in Sassoon’s library.
ONE OF 35 COPIES
11. Melodies [SASSOON, Siegfried]
[Privately printed for the author at the] Chiswick Press, 1912. First edition. Original publisher’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, light toning to covers. [41804] £2,500 One of Sassoon’s rarest works limited to only 35 copies. Introduced by a mutual friend, the writer Edmund Blunden, Silk and Sassoon became and stayed fast friends, united by a love of literature and a mutual devotion to cricket. PROVENANCE: Dennis Silk (1931-2019), one of Sassoon’s closest friends in later life, his bookplate to front pastedown.
ONE OF 50 COPIES
12. Discoveries SASSOON, Siegfried
Privately Published by the Author, 1915. First edition. A single sewn quire of eight leaves. One of fifty copies, printed on Van Gelder Zonen, privately published by the author. Original green paper wrappers, printed in black. A very 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 Yeomanry, it con- tains some of Sassoon’s best regarded ‘paradise’ poetry, and sees the first appearance of several of the works chosen for his first commercially issued collection of poems, The Old Huntsman & Other Poems , published in 1917. Keynes A11 PROVENANCE: Dennis Silk (1931-2019, cricketer and close friend of Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, bookplate to inside cover).
INSCRIBED FOR THE CRICKETER GEORGE COX
13. An Adjustment With A Foreword By Philip Gosse SASSOON, Siegfried The Golden Head Press, 1955. First edition. Number 30 of 150 copies. This copy inscribed by Sassoon for the cricketer George Cox, “George Cox from SS”. Original green paper wrapper. A very good copy. [41813] £750 PROVENANCE: George Cox Jr. (1911-1985), English first class cricketer, correspondent of Sassoon and Edmund Blunden and close friend of Dennis Silk; Dennis Silk (1931-2019).
Literary Rivals
THE SITWELLS
Sassoon first made contact with the Sitwells in 1917, when Edith wrote in admira - tion of his protest against the war. In his early years in literary London they were significant figures in his life, and Sassoon met Stephen Tennant at Sacheverell Sitwell’s, but over the following years: “he became irritated by their petty quarrels, their publicity seeking - which he thought copied from Whistler and Wilde - and their literary self-indulgence... A part of the trouble was that their taste for the fantastic and for modernism, and their contempt for the Georgians, made Sassoon feel old-fashioned, even dull” ( Egremont ). They became a favourite subject for Sassoon’s private caricature and ridicule, as seen in the following examples.
“PUTTING THEIR HEADS TOGETHER”
14. “Design For Enamel” Of The Sitwells Original Pencil and Watercolour Caricature Of The Sitwells SASSOON, Siegfried
14 x 10cm. Original pencil and watercolour caricature on The Sitwells. On paper. Captioned by Sassoon in pencil, “Design for Enamel”. There is also an earlier title in pencil, partially erased but also in Sassoon’s hand, which reads “Putting their heads together”. In very good condition, mounted and framed. [42468] £1,250 A fine caricature by Siegfried Sassoon of Edith, Osbert and Sachie Sitwell. PROVENANCE: From the estate of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).
RUDYARD KIPLING
Sassoon had long disliked what he saw as an outdated imperialistic bent in Kipling’s poetry, going so far as to argue with Rupert Brooke about it in the summer of 1914, when he dismissed it as “terribly tub-thumping stuff”. By the 1930s he was critical of Kipling’s calls for Britain to produce more ar- maments, and in his poem ‘Silver Jubilee Celebrations’ he satirised a speech to the Royal Society of St George where Kipling warned that Britain must “arm or perish”. He returns to the same theme in the second and third caricature of this sequence, where Kipling plays both bard and puppetmaster in the march to war.
SASSOON TAKES AIM AT TWO ENEMIES
15. “Hymns Ancient & Modern” Original Pencil and Watercolour Caricature Of Rudyard Kipling and Edith Sitwell SASSOON, Siegfried
[c. 1935]. 10.5 x 16.5cm. Original pencil and watercolour caricature of Rudyard Kipling and Edith Sitwell. On card, mounted on blue laid paper. Captioned by Sassoon in pencil, “Hymns Ancient & Modern”. In very good condition. [42467] £1,500 A fine caricature by Siegfried Sassoon of two poets he didn’t much like; Rudyard Kipling and Edith Sitwell. Sassoon had long disliked what he saw as an outdated imperialistic bent in Kipling’s poetry, going so far as to argue with Rupert Brooke about it in the summer of 1914, when he dismissed it as “terribly tub-thumping stuff”. While Edith Sitwell admired Sassoon and his work, the feeling was not entirely reciprocated. He disliked her modernism and disdain for the Georgians, which “made Sassoon feel old-fashioned, even dull” ( Egremont ). PROVENANCE: From the estate of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).
WARNINGS AGAINST REARMAMENT AND THE MARCH TO WAR 16. “Kipling With His Lute Made Huns Get Together With Their Guns” Original Pencil and Watercolour Caricature Of Rudyard Kipling SASSOON, Siegfried [c. 1935]. 19 x 15cm. Original pencil and watercolour caricature of Rudyard Kipling strumming the lute. Captioned by Sas - soon; “Kipling with his Lute made Huns Get together - with their guns.” In very good condition, small tear to the upper margin, not affecting the image. [42462] £1,750 By the 1930s he was critical of Kipling’s calls for Britain to produce more armaments, and in his poem ‘Silver Jubilee Celebrations’ he sati - rised a speech to the Royal Society of St George where Kipling warned that Britain must “arm or perish”. He returns to the same theme in the present caricature with his caption, “Kipling with his lute made Huns, get together with their guns”. PROVENANCE: From the estate of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).
17. “Now, Boys, - We’ll Think Imperially!” Original Pencil and Watercolour Caricature Of Rudyard Kipling SASSOON, Siegfried
[c. 1935]. 9.5 x 13.5cm. Original pencil and watercolour caricature of Rudyard Kipling playing puppet-master to the British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare. Captioned by Sassoon in pencil “Now, boys, - we’ll think imperially!”. In very good condition. [42465] £1,250 PROVENANCE: From the estate of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).
T. S. ELIOT
T. S. Eliot was Siegfried Sassoon’s literary bête noir . In the years following the First World War Sassoon found himself caught between his beloved Georgian po- ets and the rise of modernism and its proponents in Eliot, Pound and the Sitwells. Reflecting on this later, he would write: “I now live almost entirely detached from the literary scene and the younger gen- eration and am liable to assume that none of them regard me as having any signif- icance in the Eliot/Auden age”. While he had little time for the modernists in general, he reserved particular scorn for Eliot, and expresses his frustration creatively in the Christmas card from “Pas- tor T. Stearns Eliot” offered opposite, complete with Eliot’s clipped signature.
“WISHING YOU A PRIM CHRISTMAS AND A PRIGGISH NEW YEAR” 18. Original Christmas Card With A Portrait Of T. S. Eliot SASSOON, Siegfried
An original Christmas card design hand drawn and painted by Siegfried Sassoon. To the front he has drawn a portrait of T. S. Eliot in clerical robes. Inside the ‘greeting’ is written in red and blue ink and reads, “Wishing you a prim Xmas and a priggish New Year. From Pastor T. Stearns Eliot. Modernist Tabernacle. Boston. Mass.” Under this inscription, Sassoon has pasted a clipped signature of T. S. Eliot. In very good condition. [42469] £3,750 An exemplary caricature of T. S. Eliot by Siegfried Sassoon.
Books And Other Property From Sassoon’s Library
19. “At The Mermaid Tavern” Original Pencil and Watercolour Caricature Of William Shakespeare SASSOON, Siegfried [c. 1930]. 12.5 x 14.5cm. Original pencil and watercolour caricature of William Shakespeare at the Mermaid Tavern, looking uncomfortably at a fellow patron in dinner clothes. In very good condition. [42471] £1,250
SIEGFRIED SASSOON’S OWN ADVANCE COPY
20. Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man SASSOON, Siegfried; NICHOLSON, William
Faber & Faber, 1929. First illustrated edition, very rare advance copy with a frontispiece by William Nicholson depicting the author (”George Sherston”) and an unaltered list of illustrations including the frontispiece. Original publisher’s white cloth with black lettering, and red and black decorations, in pictorial dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers, with rare black and
white frontispiece of George Sherston. Seven two-tone woodcut plates under tissue guards, and numerous head- and tail-pieces throughout. A near fine copy, in a good dustwrapper, a little chipped to the spine ends with some splits to the joints. [42463] £1,875 Sassoon’s own advance copy of his first volume of memoirs, with the suppressed frontispiece and list of illustrations. According to his bibliographer Geoffrey Keynes, “the book was to contain a fron - tispiece representing the author, but this was suppressed after the binding of two or three advance copies. At the same time the list of illustrations was reprinted in order to omit the frontispiece. No copies in the original form were issued for review or sale.” In fact, a survey of copies in commerce over the past fifty years points to there be - ing more copies than Keynes suggests, though the number may be as few as 6-10. Keynes A30d. PROVENANCE: Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967; no markings); thence by family de - scent.
FROM SASSOON’S LIBRARY
21. Vigils SASSOON, Siegfried
William Heinemann, Ltd, 1935. First trade edition. 8vo. In a fine presentation binding by Riviere & Son of full green morocco, with raised bands, gilt borders to covers and titles to spine. All edges gilt. A near fine copy, with some light sunning to the spine. [42464] £750 One of 2,000 copies containing 35 of Sassoon’s poems. The book was dedicated to Sassoon’s wife, which although not inscribed, the very grand binding and the family provenance means that it could be her copy.
PROVENANCE: Siegfried Sassoon (no markings), thence by descent.
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