JONKERS RARE BOOKS
ONE OF 35 COPIES
1. Melodies [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 Blun- den, Dennis and Sassoon became and stayed fast friends, united by a love of literature and cricket. PROVENANCE: Dennis Silk (1931-2019), one of Sas- soon’s closest friends in later life, his bookplate to front pastedown.
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