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BEERBOHM, Max -- George SANTAYANA. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy, Cambridge: At the University press, 1933. 8° (191 x 125mm). Half title. Original pictorial cloth, lettering-piece on spine.
MAX BEERBOHM'S PRESENTATION COPY TO SIEGFRIED SASSOON. The front free endpaper is inscribed, "For Siegfried because the royal - though scholarly and eminently dreary - man on the cover might interest him. He (the man) is about five years old; senior therefore to George, who I hope will never [underlined] look like him. Max 1938." The 'man on the cover' referred to is an original drawing of a figure by Beerbohm on the front cover of the present copy, its head formed of the stamped crest of the Royal Society of Literature. Loosely-inserted are various letters including a card from Max Beerbohm referring to Sassoon and a fund to buy a clavichord for the Poet Laureate, a letter from Alan Dent to Sassoon regarding the formation of 'The Maximilian Society', and various photographs of Beerbohm in Rapallo.
MAX BEERBOHM'S PRESENTATION COPY TO SIEGFRIED SASSOON. The front free endpaper is inscribed, "For Siegfried because the royal - though scholarly and eminently dreary - man on the cover might interest him. He (the man) is about five years old; senior therefore to George, who I hope will never [underlined] look like him. Max 1938." The 'man on the cover' referred to is an original drawing of a figure by Beerbohm on the front cover of the present copy, its head formed of the stamped crest of the Royal Society of Literature. Loosely-inserted are various letters including a card from Max Beerbohm referring to Sassoon and a fund to buy a clavichord for the Poet Laureate, a letter from Alan Dent to Sassoon regarding the formation of 'The Maximilian Society', and various photographs of Beerbohm in Rapallo.
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