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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967) -- Rupert BROOKE (1887-1915). Letters from America ... With a Preface by Henry James, edited by Edward Marsh. London: Turnbull & Spears for Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1916. 8° (197 x 138mm). Photogravure portrait frontispiece by Emery Walker after Sherril Schell, retaining tissue guard. (Occasional light spotting, offsetting from tissue guard.) Original black buckram, printed paper lettering-piece on spine [first state of binding with '6' overstamped onto spine-label], top edge gilt, others uncut, retaining tipped-in second spine-label with correct date (lightly rubbed, spine a little faded and leant). Provenance: Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953, gift to:) -- Siegfried Sassoon (presentation inscription in Marsh's hand on front free endpaper 'Siegfried Sassoon from E.M. March 5th. 1916'; monogram booklabel; pencilled marking and notes in Sassoon's hand on rear free endpaper; sale of items from his library, Sotheby's London, 18 July 1991, lot 20, part).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST BINDING, INSCRIBED TO SASSOON BY EDWARD MARSH, THE EDITOR, a few days before publication on 8 March 1916. Sassoon's notes on the rear free endpaper are a series of adjectives describing light and colour; starting as words and short phrases, the descriptive terms become more extended as the notes progress. Keynes Brooke 42.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST BINDING, INSCRIBED TO SASSOON BY EDWARD MARSH, THE EDITOR, a few days before publication on 8 March 1916. Sassoon's notes on the rear free endpaper are a series of adjectives describing light and colour; starting as words and short phrases, the descriptive terms become more extended as the notes progress. Keynes Brooke 42.
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