SASSOON, Siegfried.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Poems. First edition, number 47 of 150 copies signed with the author's monogram only. This copy belonged to the editor and bears his ownership inscription at the end of his preface: "D. R. W. Silk, Warden [of] Radley College, Abingdon". Silk has also made a typographical correction on the contents page and provided Sassoon's dates of birth and death on the limitation page.Silk (1931-2019) was introduced to Sassoon by Edmund Blunden during a game of cricket. After Blunden left the country in 1953, Sassoon increasingly relied on his remaining friends "and Dennis Silk strengthened the Cambridge connection... His mother died young, the young Dennis found in Sassoon a substitute parent, and soon he was often at Heytesbury, to stay and to play cricket for the village" (Egremont, pp. 474-5). Silk became life president of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship in 2009.Copies were bound in 50 each of red calf, blue calf, and blue cloth.

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