Siegfried Sassoon - Jonkers Rare Books

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”.

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