Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £200 |
MISCELLANY - Siegfried SASSOON (1886-1967). Selected Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1925. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title, printer's device on title (some spotting and staining). Original blue buckram lettered in gilt, uncut (spine and edge of boards a little faded, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Keynes A24. With 20 other books including William Morris's The Well at the World's End (London, 1896, 2 vols., large 8vo, original hessian-backed blue paper boards), The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nishapour ... with a Biographical and Critical Introduction by John Payne (London, "Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and for Private Circulation Only", 1898, large 8vo, number 337 [of an unspecified limitation], original vellum), Aubrey Beardsley's Under The Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse (London, 1904, 4to, fine original green decorated cloth gilt after a design by Beardsley), Laurence Housman's Articles of Faith in the Freedom of Women (London, 1930, original wrappers), The Receipt Book of a Lady of the Reign of Queen Anne. With a foreword by John Shirley-Fox (Medstead, The Azania Press, 1931, original wrappers, ONE OF 250 COPIES), E. M. Forster's What I Believe (London, "Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets" at The Hogarth Press, 1939, 8vo, original green wrappers), the same author's Nordic Twilight (London, 1940, pamphlet, original wrappers) and the same author's Virginia Woolf ... The Rede Lecture. 1941 (Cambridge, 1942, original wrappers). (21)