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).
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