SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967) -- Rupert BROOKE (1887-1915). The Collected Poems ... With a Memoir [by Edward Marsh and an Introduction by M.R. Brooke] , edited by Marsh. London: Turnbull & Spears for Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1918. 8° (195 x 130mm). Photogravure portrait frontispiece and plate by Emery Walker after Sherril Schell retaining tissue guards. (Occasional light spotting.) Original black buckram, printed paper lettering-piece on spine, retaining tipped-in second spine-label (corners lightly rubbed, spine a little faded and leant). Provenance : Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953, gift to:) -- Siegfried Sassoon (presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'Siegfried Sassoon from E.M. July 24. 1918'; monogram booklabel; pencilled corrections in Sassoon's hand 2 pages; five loosely-inserted press clippings relating to Brooke, 2 annotated by Sassoon, and a loosely-inserted clipping from a bookseller's catalogue illustrating a Brooke manuscript annotated by Sassoon; sale of items from his library, Sotheby's London, 18 July 1991, lot 20, part). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, INSCRIBED TO SASSOON BY EDWARD MARSH, THE EDITOR, on the day of publication and corrected by Sassoon on pp. cxvii (inserting 'an' before 'a-metrist') and cxxxvii (amending 'Banbury' to 'Baybury'); in later editions the first correction was incorporated, but the second printed as 'Badbury'. Keynes Brooke 13.
SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967) -- Rupert BROOKE (1887-1915). The Collected Poems ... With a Memoir [by Edward Marsh and an Introduction by M.R. Brooke] , edited by Marsh. London: Turnbull & Spears for Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1918. 8° (195 x 130mm). Photogravure portrait frontispiece and plate by Emery Walker after Sherril Schell retaining tissue guards. (Occasional light spotting.) Original black buckram, printed paper lettering-piece on spine, retaining tipped-in second spine-label (corners lightly rubbed, spine a little faded and leant). Provenance : Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953, gift to:) -- Siegfried Sassoon (presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'Siegfried Sassoon from E.M. July 24. 1918'; monogram booklabel; pencilled corrections in Sassoon's hand 2 pages; five loosely-inserted press clippings relating to Brooke, 2 annotated by Sassoon, and a loosely-inserted clipping from a bookseller's catalogue illustrating a Brooke manuscript annotated by Sassoon; sale of items from his library, Sotheby's London, 18 July 1991, lot 20, part). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, INSCRIBED TO SASSOON BY EDWARD MARSH, THE EDITOR, on the day of publication and corrected by Sassoon on pp. cxvii (inserting 'an' before 'a-metrist') and cxxxvii (amending 'Banbury' to 'Baybury'); in later editions the first correction was incorporated, but the second printed as 'Badbury'. Keynes Brooke 13.
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