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).
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