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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Common Chords. Stanford Dingley, Berkshire: The Mill House Press, 1950. 8° (235 x 148mm). Title printed in blue and black, titles of poems printed in red. (Lightly browned.) Original red cloth, spine titled in gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped). Provenance: John Sparrow (1906-1992, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, literary critic and bibliophile, bookplate). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 107 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 100 ON HAND-MADE PAPER; John Sparrow's copy. Keynes A54.
S. SASSOON. The Tasking. [N.p.]: University Press, Cambridge for Siegfried Sassoon and Geoffrey Keynes, 1954. 8° (190 x 124mm). Title printed in red and black. (A few light spots.) Original buckram-backed, gold-dusted boards [by J.P. Gray & Sons, Cambridge], spine lettered in gilt (board-edges lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, NO. C OF 100 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'for G. Carey' and initialed 'SS' on the colophon, pencilled correction by Sassoon on p. 4. Keynes A56.
S. SASSOON. Poems ... Selected by Dennis Silk. Marlborough: The Marlborough College Press, 1958. 4° (198 x 145mm). Title printed in red and black, initials printed in red. (Occasional light spotting.) Original red skiver, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Peter Carter (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 150 INITIALED COPIES, THIS NO. 25 OF 50 BOUND IN RED SKIVER. Keynes A59.
S. SASSOON. The Path to Peace. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960. 4° (260 x 195mm). Gilt title-vignette, hand-drawn initials in gilt (1) and red, printed in blue and black. Original vellum-backed boards, spine titled in gilt. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS NO. 409 OF 480. Broadsheet poem 'Awaitment' with hand-drawn initial in red loosely inserted. Keynes A62a. (4)
S. SASSOON. The Tasking. [N.p.]: University Press, Cambridge for Siegfried Sassoon and Geoffrey Keynes, 1954. 8° (190 x 124mm). Title printed in red and black. (A few light spots.) Original buckram-backed, gold-dusted boards [by J.P. Gray & Sons, Cambridge], spine lettered in gilt (board-edges lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, NO. C OF 100 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'for G. Carey' and initialed 'SS' on the colophon, pencilled correction by Sassoon on p. 4. Keynes A56.
S. SASSOON. Poems ... Selected by Dennis Silk. Marlborough: The Marlborough College Press, 1958. 4° (198 x 145mm). Title printed in red and black, initials printed in red. (Occasional light spotting.) Original red skiver, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Peter Carter (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 150 INITIALED COPIES, THIS NO. 25 OF 50 BOUND IN RED SKIVER. Keynes A59.
S. SASSOON. The Path to Peace. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960. 4° (260 x 195mm). Gilt title-vignette, hand-drawn initials in gilt (1) and red, printed in blue and black. Original vellum-backed boards, spine titled in gilt. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS NO. 409 OF 480. Broadsheet poem 'Awaitment' with hand-drawn initial in red loosely inserted. Keynes A62a. (4)
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