Search results for: 'poems'
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[SASSOON, Siegfried; as] LYRE, Pinchbeck (pseud.) Poems.London : 1931
First edition, first impression, of this collection of 14 poems parodying the work of Humbert Wolfe, who had irritated Sassoon for various reasons. Pinchbeck was a cheap alloy used for Victorian brooches; the pseudonym therefore suggested a fake poet. The book was published on 15 May 1931 in an edition of 1,000 copies. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 24730
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems.London : 1919
First edition, first impression, in the scarce jacket. This collection presents Sassoon's "savagely realistic and compassionate war poems" (Rupert Hart-Davis in ODNB), gathering 64 pieces, 12 of which appear in print for the first time here, the others having been published in two previous collections: The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918).... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 111246
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems.London : 1919
First edition, first impression. The volume includes 63 poems of the war, most written while Sassoon was in hospital recovering from his injuries. "Sassoon's savagely realistic and compassionate war poems had established his stature as a fully fledged poet, and despite all his later prose and verse, and his growing aversion to the label, it was mainly... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135908
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems.London : 1919
First edition, first impression. Collects a number of the author's best known war poems and much previously unpublished work. This in many ways is Sassoon's key poetical statement on the war. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119624
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The Path to Peace. Selected Poems.Worcester : 1960
First edition, number 411 of 500 copies only. The Path to Peace is a book of religious verse that followed Sassoon's conversion to Catholicism in 1957. The book is dedicated to Mother Margaret Mary McFarlin, the nun who first drew him towards the faith by writing to him out of the blue after sensing a spiritual struggle in his work when reading... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 136712
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The Old Huntsman and Other Poems.London : 1917
First edition, first impression, in the very scarce jacket, of Sassoon's first collection of war poetry. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 138949
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The Old Huntsman and Other Poems.London : 1917
First edition, first impression; review copy with publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted, with their request not to publish anything on the book until 3 April 1917. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 128214
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SASSOON, Siegfried. To My Mother.London : 1928
Signed limited edition, number 463 of 500 large-paper copies printed on English handmade paper, numbered and signed by the author. Number 14 in the Ariel Poems series, Sassoon's poem pays tribute to his mother, Theresa Thornycroft Sassoon (1853-1947). Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 128229
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SASSOON, Siegfried. Something About Myself.Worcester : 1966
First edition, first impression, printed on the occasion of the author's 80th birthday from the manuscript of More Poems which Sassoon wrote in 1897, when he was 11 years old. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 140753
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(SASSOON, Siegfried.) JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle.Chicago : [1935]
First edition thus, limited issue, one of 350 copies only, inscribed by the composer, "For Siegfried Sassoon - with my best wishes - Hazel Felman", and designated a review copy on the limitation page. Felman had previously scored Sassoon's poem "Song, Be My Soul".
First appearing in 1928, Anna Livia Plurabelle was an early published chapter... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 140032
