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Vigils.
by SASSOON, Siegfried
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon,], 1934. First edition, number 118 of 272 copies signed and numbered by the author, from a total edition of 303 copies, a surplus 60 of which were bound in less attractive boards. The trade edition came the next year. The book resulted from Sassoon asking his friend, the pioneering surgeon and eminent bibliographer Geoffrey Keynes, for advice on issuing a limited edition of his poems. Keynes "suggested presenting these 'serious and reflective poems' in a 'novel and attractive form' by having the entire book engraved on copper plates in a script based on Sassoon's own beautiful hand" (Wilson, p. 273). Keynes would later write Sassoon's Bibliography (1962). Octavo. Original niger morocco, spine lettered in gilt, turn-ins ruled in blind, top edge gilt. Copper-engraved title page with scythe and hourglass design by Stephen Gooden. Text engraved on copper by Charles Sigrist and printed on rectos only. Retaining publisher's notice, loosely inserted as issued. Bookplate of one J. M. F. Hollebone on front pastedown. Covers slightly bowed, usual tanning to edges of binding, couple of small marks to leather, contents clean. A very good copy. Keynes A39a. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon, the Journey from the Trenches: A Biography (1918-1967), 2003.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 164053
- Title
- Vigils.
- Author
- SASSOON, Siegfried
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- [Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon,]
- Date Published
- 1934
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Gilt
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- Morocco
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- Title Page
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