George Sassoon Siegfried (7 results)

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First edition. Octavo. Teal cloth, silver spine. Collogravure frontispiece portrait. Title page in red and black. 269,[1] pp. Very good; in a good unclipped typographic and decorated dust jacket with some chips and closed tears, mostly confined to the top edge. First edition, first impression. Sassoon, a self-described "Meredithian" from his youth forward, reread the entire Meredith corpus before undertaking this project, and he successfully brings the man, the poet, and the novelist alive for a new century -- the twentieth, and now the twenty-first. KEYNES A53.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains collogravure frontispiece, (viii), 269 pp. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small chip to the top of the spine, rubbing to the corners, not price clipped, 15/-. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. 1st Edition. 1st Edition 1954. Publishers Compliments Slip, which reads: "With the compliments of the Author and Publishers. From the Library of Siegfried Sassoon and Sold by Sotheby's in 1991. It carries the Sotheby's monogram sticker inside the front cover to show it is from Sassoon's own library. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Part of a large library of Sassoon's books More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18082.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New Edition 1950. George (1936 -2006), was the only son of Siegfried Sassoon and this book was given to him by his mother, Hester Sassoon (nee Gatty). The book is in very good condition. From the Library of Siegfried Sassoon and Sold by Sotheby's in 1991. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Part of a large library of Sassoon's books More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18047.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., (1948). 1st ed., viii, 270 pp., with a frontispiece portrait. 8vo., original green cloth, faded. (B).