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Sassoon, Siegfried.. The War Poems Of Siegfried Sassoon.. William Heinemann., London., 1919.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition 1919. page edges uncut. Publishers red cloth, spine faded, rubbed and very slightly frayed at the edges. Bottom of spine and corners lightly bumped. Paper titling label on the spine is rubbed and slightly darkened. Paper titling label on front cover has a small chip which does not affect the lettering. Some light marking. Still a good copy. 95 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried. The War Poems Of Siegfried Sassoon. William Heinemann, 1919.
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Maroon cloth covers with paper labels to front and spine. Spine faded. Ring mark and some light fading to front cover. 95 pages. Foxing to page edges.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried. The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1919.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 7 x 4.5 inches. ix, 11-95 pp. Red cloth with paper labels at spine and front board. Light soiling, some discoloration and toning to paper labels. Very Good.
Seller: Free Play Books, NEW HAVEN, CT, U.S.A.
SASSOON Siegfried.. The War Poems of.. 1919, 1919.
Price: US$400.98 + shipping
Description: London: William Heinemann 1919. 12mo. Orig. full red buckram with printed paper titling labels to front cover & spine (spine slightly discoloured). (96pp.). First edition. Uncut and partly unopened. Rare.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$436.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: small 8vo, 95pp, half-title present, orig. red cloth with white paper title labels to spine and upper cover with black lettering design by William Nicholson, label on spine slightly chipped on one corner, spine a little sunned. A VG clean copy. Of these 64 poems, 12 are now published for the first time. (Keynes, A20. One of 2,000 copies). Siegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirized generals, politicians, and churchmen for their incompetence and blind support of the war. He was also well known as a novelist and political commentator. In 1957 he was awarded the Queen s Medal for Poetry. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, sometimes called the Rothschilds of the East because the family fortune was made in India, Sassoon lived the leisurely life of a cultivated country gentleman before the World War I, pursuing his two major interests, poetry and fox hunting. Following the outbreak of the World War I, Sassoon served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, seeing action in France in late 1915. He received a Military Cross for bringing back a wounded soldier during heavy fire. After being wounded in action, Sassoon wrote an open letter of protest to the war department, refusing to fight any more. I believe that this War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it, he wrote in the letter. At the urging of Bertrand Russell, the letter was read in the House of Commons. Sassoon expected to be court-martialed for his protest, but poet Robert Graves intervened on his behalf, arguing that Sassoon was suffering from shell-shock and needed medical treatment. In 1917, Sassoon was hospitalized. The later collection The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon included 64 poems of the war, most written while Sassoon was in hospital recovering from his injuries. Public reaction to Sassoon s poetry was fierce. Some readers complained that the poet displayed little patriotism, while others found his shockingly realistic depiction of war to be too extreme. Even pacifist friends complained about the violence and graphic detail in his work. But the British public bought the books because, in his best poems, Sassoon captured the feeling of trench warfare and the weariness of British soldiers for a war that seemed never to end.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried:. The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. London Heinemann 1919, 1919.
Price: US$481.04 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1919. A very good book without inscriptions, with some creasing, some fading and some wear to the front board. Some light chipping to the William Nicholson designed label. One of 2000 copies containing 64 poems, 12 published for the first time.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
SASSOON, Siegfried.. The War Poems.. London William Heinemann, 1919.
Price: US$695.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, hard back issue; 8vo; the Esher copy with Oliver Brett's armorial bookplate on front pastedown; publisher's red cloth, white paper title labels to upper board and spine printed in black. Spine faded as usual and a little nicked at the ends. Very good. A collection of the author's best known war poems, including numerous previously unpublished verses. Titles include 'Trench Duty', 'The Dug-Out', 'Counter Attack', 'Return of the Heroes' and 'Aftermath'. Keynes A20
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems. William Heinemann, 1919.
Price: US$1539.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth, paper labels to spine and front board, edges untrimmed, dust jacket, spine slightly rolled, section of sunning to head of spine (with corresponding section of loss to dust jacket), small water stain to top edge of text-block, a few spots internally, dust jacket spine discoloured, price scored through in ink, short closed tear to foot of front panel; decent copy in scarce DJ
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
SASSOON, Siegfried.. The War Poems.. London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1919.
Price: US$1763.80 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. This title collects a number of the author's best known war poems and much previously unpublished work. It is, in many ways, is Sassoon's key poetical statement on the war. 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 as a war poet that he was regarded for the rest of his life" (ODNB). 12 of the poems included 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). Keynes A20; Reilly p. 286. Small octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, white morocco title label to spine and front board lettered in black, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, top edge gilt. The occasional spot, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
SASSOON, Siegfried.. The War Poems.. London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1919.
Price: US$1763.80 + shipping
Description: 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. 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 as a war poet that he was regarded for the rest of his life" (ODNB). 12 of the poems included 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). Small octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, white morocco title label to spine and front board lettered in black, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, top edge gilt. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom