S I EGFRI ED SASSOON
2. Discoveries Privately Published by the Author, 1915.
First edition. A single sewn quire of eight leaves. One of fifty copies privately published by the author. Original green paper wrappers, printed in black. A very good copy, lightly foxed 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 contains some of best regarded of Sassoon’s ‘paradise’ poetry, and sees the first appearance of several of the works cho - sen for his first commercially issued collection of poems, The Old Huntsman & Other Poems , published in 1917. PROVENANCE: Dennis Silk (1931-2019) bookplate to inside cover).
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