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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Rhymed Ruminations. London: The Chiswick Press for Siegfried Sassoon and Geoffrey Keynes, 1939. 16° (155 x 98mm). Title-page designed by Laurence Whistler with decorative border and double 'SS' monogram, printer's device on final page. Original printed boards, upper panel with reproducing Whistler's title-page design (extremities very lightly faded and rubbed). Provenance: Arnold Meadowcroft Muirhead (1900-1988, presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'Arnold Muirhead from Geoffrey Keynes August 1939'; booklabel) -- sale, Sotheby's London, 28 July 1988, lot 635.
FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 75 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KEYNES. Rhymed Ruminations was published in July 1939, and was 'designed by [Keynes] with the author's concurrence' (Keynes); this example was inscribed by Keynes to the author, bibliographer, and bookseller Arnold Muirhead. Keynes A44a.
FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 75 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KEYNES. Rhymed Ruminations was published in July 1939, and was 'designed by [Keynes] with the author's concurrence' (Keynes); this example was inscribed by Keynes to the author, bibliographer, and bookseller Arnold Muirhead. Keynes A44a.
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