Siegfried Sassoon Introduction (28 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Edition Or Printing Indicated. Illustrated Black Wraps With White And Orange Lettering On The Spine.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Paperback, VG. 305pp, covers yellowed and a little creased. The first volume of the author's autobiography, a true account, rather than the earlier 'Sherston' trilogy. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon [ 1886 - 1967 ] English war poet and writer. 325 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Secker & Warburg 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0436162601 85 pages, illustrated with black-and-white drawings. Near Fine with very light wear in dust jacket with a 2" closed tear to the lower edge of front flap, and light wear. clph.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some foxing at fore-edge and DJ rear flap. ; 320 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardbound book in red boards with silvergilt lettering. Very light shelfwear to edges of boards. Red tint to top edge of text block has faded. Light to medium foxing present to text block edges and to endpapers. Pages are clean, sharp cornered, securely bound. Illustrated dust jacket in mylar shows heavy wear to all corners, chipping to bottom corners.…

Condition: FINE. First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Catalogue for an exhibition at the Academic Center Library at the University of Texas, September - December, 1969. Two years after his death, this exhibition was designed to honor Sassoon as a poet and as a man. Complied by David Farmer, introduction by fellow war poet and close friend, Edmund Blunden. Illustrated with black and white photos. Issued in an edition of 2100 copies (although not stated, 2000 copies were in wrappers, 100 in boards), designed by David Price. Index. 68 pp plus colophon. Fine in tan illustrated wrappers. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 147 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 247 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 292 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. this copy is in English and has Preface, introduction, and colophon in Japanese. Notes includes Japanese.

Condition: Very Good. first edition; 92 pp., hardcover, endpapers lightly foxed, else very good in a tattered dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Edition limited to 1000 copies for England and 1000 copies for the United States. This is copy 468 of the English issue. Red cloth over bevelled boards with lightly faded spine. Top edge gilt. With 12 illustrations in colour by Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe. Clean and tight with crisp text. No name, bookplate or other markings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 290pp, drawings bny Lynton Lamb, bound in illustrated cloth 'huntsmen and hounds] in a green slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated cloth cover. 1973 Second impression. No slipcase. Lamb, Lynton (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. A nice compact, cloth bound, hardback book, with gilt titles on the spine. The book comes with its own brown coloured box, slipcase. The book is in first class condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. It looks like the book has hardly been used or read. 290 pages all intact and nice tight binding. All pages, text and illustrations are in excellent, clean, readable order. First published by The Folio Society in 1971, this specific book is the fourth impression dated 1977. Printed and bound in Great Britain by W & J Mackay Limited, Chatham, Kent. Set in Barbou 11 point leaded 1 point. Another stunning book from The Folio Society.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. PAPERBACK 1983. 19.5x12.5cm. 160 pages. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight. Flat pages. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref Dsp6.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited edition. SIGNED. 224pp. Octavo [24.5cm]. Bound in beige cloth cloth. Title stamped in black ink on spine. Illustration of a natural trumpet stamped in black ink on the front board. In a brown slipcase with beige cloth at head and foot and title stamped in gilt on spine. Slipcase a bit rubbed. Limited to 2,000 copies, of which this is number 1995. Signed by artist Paul Hogarth on the limitation page.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. (1930) 668 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed. Spine and edges sunned. Rear cover bowed. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Top edge gilt. #905 of 1,050 copies. Illust. w/ color plates and b/w text drawings. John Leech (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tight binding, solid brown boards, decorative paper label with dark brown lettering affixed to front, clean and unmarked pages. In clear mylar cover.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1942 reprint. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Some marking due to age on pages, but overall book remains in good condition considering age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 292 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Slight foxing throughout and edges of leaves a little darkened, otherwise a nice copy. From the Library of Hester Sassoon [née Gatty], bearing her autograph Hester Gatty signature, dated 1925, on a preliminary blank Hester Gatty was born in 1906, the daughter of Sir Stephen and Lady Katherine Gatty. She met and married Siegfried Sassoon in 1933. Although they separated after the birth of their son, George, they never divorced. She died in 1973. Original blue blind stamped cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, patterned end-papers.…

Hardcover. Reprinted. Octavo, xi, 34 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is brown with tanned title label. Boards in brown cloth. Worn spine caps and corners, toning to spine, peripheral toning, light shelf wear. Text block has tinted top edge. Tanning to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece (portrait). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2. 1382981. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. The boards are a bit marked, edgeworn and sunned. One small sticker, a signature and some tanning. There is a small closed tear to the tissue guard. The binding is sound - slightly cracked but intact at the title page. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Verses written by members of the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy, July 1943-March 1944. With a Foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Bart. K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., formerly Commander of the Eighth Army, and an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. Pp. 92; demy 8vo; full dark blue morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, small ribbon insignia in Italian colours mounted within a single rule gilt border on the upper board, boards a trifle marked, fore-corners of upper board faintly bruised, the spine slightly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, tiny ink mark to upper free endpaper, free endpapers and outer blanks offset at edges (from the leather binding); George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1945. First [limited] edition, being one of 110 numbered copies on hand-made paper; this copy signed by Sassoon on the limitation page. Keynes B18, footnote (not calling for the author's signature). *72 poems selected from a total of 596 entries submitted to a competition organized in the Eighth Army by the Army Educational Corps. All were written in Italy or Sicily during the first nine months of the Italian campaign.…

London. Chatto & Windus. 1920. 4to. Original red buckram, printed paper spine label; pp. ix, [iii], 33, [iii]; photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard; slightly sunned, label toned but legible, corners and extremities rubbed, spine chipped at head and foot, some browning to endpapers, light abrasion to front pastedown (erased old inscription 'Esme .'); a very good copy; half-title inscribed by Edith Sitwell to Joseph Cohen ('For Joseph Cohen | who protects this great poet | in memory of a most |happy evening'), dated 9 April 1957, from Cohen's library with his small printed shelflabel to rear pastedown, two loosely inserted printouts, highlighted and annotated on 'Dulce et decorum est' and on the present edition of Owen's poems presumably in Cohen's hand. A remarkable association copy of the first collection of Wilfred Owen's poetry, widely considered the finest poems to emerge from the First World War, this copy inscribed by Edith Sitwell, the volume's acknowledged though uncredited editor, to Tulane University professor Joseph Cohen (d. 2013), scholar of First World War poetry. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) died one week before the Armistice, his mother reportedly receiving news of his death as bells were tolling to announce the war's end. Only four of his poems were published during his lifetime, but he is best remembered for a group of poems mostly written between August 1917 while he was being treated for shell shock at Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh (where he met Siegfried Sassoon), and his return to the front line in France in early summer 1918. This slim volume appeared two years after Owen's death and is at once marked by friendship and loss. Sassoon's heartfelt introduction remains one of the finest early tributes to the poet: 'The importance of his contribution to the literature of the War cannot be decided by those who, like myself, both admired him as a poet and valued him as a friend. [.] I can only affirm that he was a man of absolute integrity of mind.' This is followed by Owen's own brief preface, found 'in an unfinished condition, among [his] papers': Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the pity of War.The Poetry is in the pity. When Edith Sitwell, who had never met Owen (but had published seven of his poems in the November 1919 issue of Wheels, dedicated to his memory), expressed a wish to edit a selection of Owen's work, Sassoon, 'stirring himself at last, insisted that Owen had wished him to do this' (Egremont). Owen's mother sent any manuscripts she could find, but 'the rush of Sassoon's life [soon] intervened'. In January 1920 he went to New York, leaving the material with Sitwell, having done no work on it. The slim volume that appeared in December 1920 includes a brief acknowledgment: 'For the preparation of this book thanks are primarily due to Miss Edith Sitwell.'Sassoon later conceded that Sitwell had done all the editing, blaming her for the volume's shortcomings. This copy is inscribed by Sitwell "For Joseph Cohen / who protects this great poet / in memory of a most / happy evening, the 9th of April / 1957, from Edith Sitwell." No other copies inscribed by Sitwell have been traced in commerce. Cohen, a scholar of First World War poetry and biographer of Isaac Rosenberg, was a professor at Tulane University. In 1965, a year after Sitwell's death, Cohen published the influential article 'Owen Agonistes' (English Literature in Transition, 1965, later issued in pamphlet form) which sought to uncover what described as a 'conspiracy' of silence regarding Owen's homosexuality. His work on Owen can be seen as a reaction against Sassoon's claim in the introduction '[a]ll that was strongest in Wilfred Owen survives in his poems; any superficial impressions of his personality, any records of his conversation, behaviour, or appearance, would be irrelevant and unseemly.' We have been unable to find any record of other copies inscribed by Sitwell. White. …

Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. [ix], 33pp. Bound in publisher's paper boards lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at extremities, light soiling to covers; minor foxing to all edges. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper; moderate foxing to front and rear sheets. Minor offsetting from frontisportrait to title. Contents lightly toned with scattered foxing. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. A scarce collection of WWI poetry by poet and soldier Wilfred Owen.…