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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Picture Show. [N.p.]: J.B. Pearce at the University Press, Cambridge for the author, 1919. 8° (238 x 168mm). (Occasional light spotting.) Original brown boards with blind-tooled greek-key borders [by John P. Gray and Son, Ltd., Cambridge], printed paper lettering-piece on upper board (boards lightly rubbed and marked, more heavily at extremities, spine with short splits and chips at ends, block splitting). Provenance: Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964, presentation inscription on half-title 'For. Edith Sitwell. from Siegfried Sassoon. July. 1919.') -- [sale, Sotheby's London, 26 January 1982, lot 380] -- [sale, Christie's London, 29 September 1982, lot 186].
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES. INSCRIBED TO EDITH SITWELL BY SASSOON IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION. Edith Sitwell had written to Sassoon in 1917 to express her support for his protest against the war and they met in October 1918, shortly before the armistice. Sassoon admired some of her poetry (whilst having reservations about the Sitwells' eager embrace of modernism and dislike of the Georgians), and Edith in turn seems to have become infatuated with him, a sentiment which was not reciprocated. This presentation copy of Sassoon's last collection to contain a significant proportion of war poems dates from the period when relations between Sassoon and the Sitwell siblings (particularly Edith) were close; as time passed, they became increasingly strained, due to the divergence in outlook between them -- exacerbated by Osbert's mockery of Graves, Blunden and W.J.R. Turner in an article in Wheels in 1921 -- and, in later life, by the lionizing of the Sitwells and other modernists, and the corresponding neglect of other writers. Keynes A19a.
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES. INSCRIBED TO EDITH SITWELL BY SASSOON IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION. Edith Sitwell had written to Sassoon in 1917 to express her support for his protest against the war and they met in October 1918, shortly before the armistice. Sassoon admired some of her poetry (whilst having reservations about the Sitwells' eager embrace of modernism and dislike of the Georgians), and Edith in turn seems to have become infatuated with him, a sentiment which was not reciprocated. This presentation copy of Sassoon's last collection to contain a significant proportion of war poems dates from the period when relations between Sassoon and the Sitwell siblings (particularly Edith) were close; as time passed, they became increasingly strained, due to the divergence in outlook between them -- exacerbated by Osbert's mockery of Graves, Blunden and W.J.R. Turner in an article in Wheels in 1921 -- and, in later life, by the lionizing of the Sitwells and other modernists, and the corresponding neglect of other writers. Keynes A19a.
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