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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Lingual Exercises for Advanced Vocabularians. Cambridge: Privately printed, 1925. 8°. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt (without the slipcase). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 99 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed for Ottoline Morrell with the author's monogram. Keynes A23.
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967) Perhaps the most important support that Ottoline Morrell ever offered to a poet or artist was her friendship for Siegfried Sassoon during the First World War. She became aware of him when she read his poem 'To Victory' in The Times on 15 January 1916, and traced him through Edmund Gosse. Like her he was an admirer of the Ballets Russes, and she wrote of her pleasure at finding 'in the dark prison-like days a sympathetic desire - to fly out beyond into the beauty and colour and freedom that one so longs for' (Max Egremont, Siegfried Sassoon, p.81). In July 1917 Sassoon wrote his Soldier's Declaration, which announced 'I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it'. Bertrand Russell showed this to Morrell, who wrote to Sassoon in support, saying she thought it 'extraordinarily good. It really couldn't have been better, I thought ... You will have a hard time of it, and people will say all sorts of foolish things. They always do - but nothing of that sort can really tarnish or dim the value and splendour of such a True Act.' They continued to correspond frequently, and Sassoon sent her his war poems as he wrote them, in return for which she sent writings of her own.
SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Lingual Exercises for Advanced Vocabularians. Cambridge: Privately printed, 1925. 8°. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt (without the slipcase). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 99 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed for Ottoline Morrell with the author's monogram. Keynes A23.

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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Lingual Exercises for Advanced Vocabularians. Cambridge: Privately printed, 1925. 8°. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt (without the slipcase). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 99 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed for Ottoline Morrell with the author's monogram. Keynes A23.
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