Foreword Siegfried Sassoon (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 52 pp, blue cloth gilt title to spine. Book and wrapper slightly sunned on spine otherwise clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Nice clean copy. First edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine d/w.

With a foreword by Siegfried Sassoon, edited by Ian Parsons. With illustrations in b/w and colour. Softcovers VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1961). 52pp. VG/VG copy, jacket has a couple of minor stains, spine slightly faded, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Glossy p/b. Condition: VG. Isaac Rosenberg (illustrator). 2nd Imp.1984 ed., 1st h/back thus-1979. Sassoon's Foreword dates from the 1937 version of this work 'Poems, Plays, Prose and Letters of Isaac Rosenberg'. xxxii+8 pp.coloured plates+320, 16 pp.monochrome plates ex-pagination; slight outward curl to front cover, with hint of crease to same, otherwise clean, tight, unmarked and unworn. This edition by Parsons includes Rosenberg's art-work for the first time, material not in its 1937 precursor and much amplified annotation. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Size: 15 Cm x 23 Cm.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Thus. With coloured illustrations by John Leech, foreword by Sassoon. Limited to 1050 copies for England of which this is 984. Light wear, spine sunned. 667 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st UK Edition. Dustjacket not price-clipped but worn and spine and back panel faded, unmarked, 52pp, VG/G-. Book.

Hardback. Condition: nrVG. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dw. Revised Edition. Buff hessian look cloth, gold lettering on maroon background to spine. Top edge red (faded). In very good, clean, tight condition BUT Light spotting to text edges and endpapers. Book is cocked with slightly bumped/rubbed corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon. Four wood-engravings and decorations by Guy Worsdell. Teal buckram gilt, with topedge gilt. A fine copy in a spine-tanned, good or better dust jacket with chips and tears, and a cover abrasion. Published in an edition of 380 numbered copies (20 in morocco and signed), this number unnumbered and marked "Review Copy." With an edgeworn publisher's prospectus laid in.

HardBack. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. 1st and Limited Edition. DW has slight sunning to spine and shallow chipping at spine ends. Four wood engravings by Guy Worsdell. Copy number 375 of 380.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing of the revised edition hardback (Poems alone) in unclipped dustjacket. Book and dustjacket both in VG condition - previous owner's name and Cambridge College address on the front endpaper and the poem Dust Calleth to Dust neatly written in ink on rear endpaper; jacket bright with some loss (see image). Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Am happy to supply scans.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A very good copy in a good dust jacket of the first edition of this collection of verses by members of the 8th Army 1943-4. Dust Jacket: green paper with whit lettering and red design to front and spine and Harrap logo to rear; bright and clean; no fading; some rubbing to all edges and loss to all front corners; not price clipped (now protected). Cover: purple cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; in very good condition for its age; no fading; very clean and bright; few signs of shelf wear. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; neat gift inscription to front fly leaf, dated 1945; no other markings, inscriptions or book plates; perhaps slight darkening to page edges; slightest bump to small section of front edges; otherwise in very good condition for its age. 92 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's red coloured cloth with bright gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that is sun faded to spine.The wrapper though has still got it's original and scarce wrap round band in yellow with recommendations from Sassoon and Liddle Hart.Not Price clipped and the book has NO former owner's names present.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.The author's account of his Army service from the Boer War, with the Egyptian Army in the Sudan in the early 1900s, Gallipoli and Palestine during WW1, the Middle East and the Balkans between the Wars, and Palestine and Syria during WW2.8vo 251pp First Edition 2nd Impression [1953].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. Red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt. xvi, 404pp. + 8 plates, the frontispiece with a tissue guard, the head edge stained red. 'In including all the existing material the editors recognise that they are publishing much, both in verse and in prose, which Rosenberg would have destroyed or recast had he lived. They do so in the belief that many readers who already appreciate Rosenberg's achievement will prefer to form their own conception of his developing personality rather than to accept an impression conveyed by selective editing.' Somewhat marked outwardly and moderately bumped to extremities, the spine and (less so) part of the lower panel faded, the half-title spotted towards its head edge, otherwise just the very occasional instance of mild soiling internally. Towards Very Good overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in 1937 - edited by Gordon Bottomley and Denys Harding, with a foreword by Siegfried Sassoon. The original publication of Isaac Rosenberg's "Poems" was in 1922 by William Heinemann, with this "Collected Works" not being published until 1937. With eight monochrome illustrations, including a frontispiece showing: 'Self Portrait, 1911 or earlier'. An historically important collection of artistic and literary works by Isaac Rosenberg. ***Near fine in red cloth-covered boards with a gilt titles on the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright, although the spine colour has faded a bit. The boards are quite clean, just showing some marks and rubbing from age and handling over the years. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, with some small nicks to the top edge cloth. Corners sharp. Top edge of page block stained red by the publisher to match the boards. Edges of page block clean, with just a small mark to the fore-edge but no foxing. With the bottom edge untrimmed by the printer. No reading lean to the binding, and no reading creases to the spine. Spine tight. Internally also near fine, with just a neat contemporary ownership name at the top of the front free endpaper. No offsetting or foxing to the interior pages. Pages clean. No creases or tears. Without the scarce dustwrapper. ***226mm x148mm. 401 pages. ***Contents: Foreword; Biographical Note; Editorial Note; POEMS: Night and Day, 1912; Youth, 1915; Moses: A Play, 1916; Trench Poems, 1916-1918; The Unicorn; Earlier Poems Unpublished by Rosenberg, 1914-1915; Earlier Poems, 1913; Earlier Poems, 1912; Earlier Poems, before 1912; Fragments. PROSE: Art, Emerson, The Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition, Shorter Fragments of Prose, Romance at the Baillie Galleries, Rudolph, On a Door Knocker. LETTERS, NOTES, INDEX OF FIRST LINES, INDEX OF TITLES. ***'Youth is still childhood: when we cast off every cloudy venture, and our thoughts are clear and mature; when every act is a conscious thought, every thought an attempt to arrest feeling; our feelings strong and overwhelming, our sensitiveness awakened by insignificant things in life; when the skies race tumultuously with our blood, and the earth shines and laughs; when our blood hangs suspended at the rustling of a gown. Our vanity loves to subdue--battle, aggressive. How we despise those older and duller--we want life, newness, excitement. (Isaac Rosenberg, circa 1916) ***'Isaac Rosenberg (25 Nov 1890 - 1 Apr 1918) was an English poet and artist. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War. On 21 Mar 1918, the German Army started its Spring Offensive on the Western Front. A week later, Rosenberg sent his last letter with a poem "Through These Pale Cold Days" to England before going to the front lines with reinforcements. Having just finished a night patrol, he was killed on the night of 1 Apr 1918 with another ten KORL soldiers; there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat. (Wiki) ***An original first edition of the "Collected Works" of Isaac Rosenberg. The Collected Works was issued in an edition of 500 copies, with 900 sets of sheets being stored for a potential reprinting at the publisher's bindery - however, only 403 copies had been sold by March 1938, and the remaining unbound sheets were destroyed in April 1941 when the warehouse used by Chatto & Windus was bombed in the London Blitz. As a consequence, copies of this book in any condition are very hard to find now. Of interest to literary academics and collectors of Isaac Rosenberg's work, and the poetry of the First World War. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed on free endpaper '' To Frederic Vanson fellow poet with thanks and good wishes I.D. 27.vi.78 '', Also signed by Davie on title page. Book measure 22x14.5.cm. 52pp. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt title lettering. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, dust marked. Jacket in good condition. Internally, pages clean. A nice copy. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK Printing published by Chatto And Windus in 1937. One of only 500 copies printed. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. A little pushing at the spine ends with a small lightly faded area at the lower spine end corresponding to the the area of loss in the wrapper. Crimson top-stain still present. Gilt titling remains bright. Mild splaying of the front board. Toning to the text block and page edges. Mild offsetting and spotting to the end-papers. The tissue guard to the frontispiece portrait is still present. Free from inscriptions. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. It bears the correct price of 12s. 6d. net. Mild edge-wear with some loss at the spine ends and the upper front panel edge. A few closed tears to the folds with some professional japanese tissue repairs on the verso to two closed tears to the spine folds. Light toning to the spine. The wrapper looks striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Accompanied with the loosely inserted Publisher's compliments slip with the H/W compliments of Mr I. M. Parsons. The latter, an editor at Chatto went on to write the introduction and notes for the revised edition of this title published in 1979 by Chatto. From the library of American poet Richard Eberhart. A very scarce title with such attributes. Only the second copy we have handled to date. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.