The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon by Sassoon Siegfried, First Edition (12 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brand New. First Print of this Edition (number line on copyright page 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 154pp. (62/2).

Condition: As New. Facsimile Reprint, part of the Kessinger Legacy Reprints series. Publisher's illustrated glossy-paper covered boards. Octavo. pp. 96, [4]. A book in Fine condition.

Condition: Good. Second impression of the First Edition of 1919, a print run of 1000 copies only. Bound in red cloth which is sun faded on both boards. Spine is faded. Front title label and spine label both pasted in. Front is in very good condition, spine is age darkened with slight blemishes. Spine and edges are bumped. Pages are rough cut. Binding is tight. Pages are age tanned with slight foxing to first pages. Apart from the fading this is a good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st edition. Publisher's red cloth, printed paper labels to front board and spine. Rubbing to label on spine. Sunning to spine; slight wear to top spine. Top edges trimmed, other edges untrimmed. 8vo (11.8 x 17.5cm). Hinges sound, endpapers uncracked at gutters. Mild browning to endpapers and very minor scattered foxing to text block. No dustwrapper. Sassoon's 'savagely realistic and compassionate war poems' (ODNB) were among the most significant collections to come out of the First World War. 2000 copies of this first edition were published. Keynes A20. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Size: ix, 10-95, (1)pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Full rose buckram, some fading to spine and lower parts of front board. Printed labels [by William Nicholson] superimposed on the spine (somewhat rubbed) and upper cover. Ownership inscription. A good bright copy. (Keynes A20).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. small 8vo, 95pp, half-title present, orig. red cloth with white paper title labels to spine and upper cover with black lettering design by William Nicholson, label on spine slightly chipped on one corner, spine a little sunned. A VG clean copy. Of these 64 poems, 12 are now published for the first time. (Keynes, A20. One of 2,000 copies). Siegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirized generals, politicians, and churchmen for their incompetence and blind support of the war. He was also well known as a novelist and political commentator. In 1957 he was awarded the Queen s Medal for Poetry. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, sometimes called the Rothschilds of the East because the family fortune was made in India, Sassoon lived the leisurely life of a cultivated country gentleman before the World War I, pursuing his two major interests, poetry and fox hunting. Following the outbreak of the World War I, Sassoon served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, seeing action in France in late 1915. He received a Military Cross for bringing back a wounded soldier during heavy fire. After being wounded in action, Sassoon wrote an open letter of protest to the war department, refusing to fight any more. I believe that this War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it, he wrote in the letter. At the urging of Bertrand Russell, the letter was read in the House of Commons. Sassoon expected to be court-martialed for his protest, but poet Robert Graves intervened on his behalf, arguing that Sassoon was suffering from shell-shock and needed medical treatment. In 1917, Sassoon was hospitalized. The later collection The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon included 64 poems of the war, most written while Sassoon was in hospital recovering from his injuries. Public reaction to Sassoon s poetry was fierce. Some readers complained that the poet displayed little patriotism, while others found his shockingly realistic depiction of war to be too extreme. Even pacifist friends complained about the violence and graphic detail in his work. But the British public bought the books because, in his best poems, Sassoon captured the feeling of trench warfare and the weariness of British soldiers for a war that seemed never to end.

First edition. Publisher's bright red cloth, title labels to upper cover and spine, in the original orange dustwrapper printed in red. A bright, near fine copy, with a contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpapers, in a very good dustwrapper indeed, the spine a little toned, with some wear to the extremities. An attractive copy of one of the most significant collections of poetry to come from the First World War. 2,000 copies were published on 30th October 1919. In a letter of that December, Sassoon described the book as "a tract against war". Keynes A20.

1 vols. 12mo. First edition. One of 2000 copies printed. 1 vols. 12mo. First edition of one of Sassoon's most important collections of poetry, with "Presentation Copy" blindstamp at head of title page. Keynes A20; Reilly p. 286 Original red cloth with printed labels. Spine just a tad faded, trace soiling to boards, but a nice copy. In cloth chemise First edition. One of 2000 copies printed.

8vo., First Edition, free endpapers very lightly browned; original red cloth, upper board and backstrip with printed paper label, uncut, backstrip lightly dulled and label browned (but all lettering wholly legible) else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. 'Of these 64 poems, 12 are now published for the first time.' The collection effectively represents Sassoon's contemporary feeling on the conflict. Keynes A20 (recording that 2000 copies were printed).

With a prefatory extract from Henri Barbusse's Le Feu. First edition. 12mo., original orange cloth, printed labels designed by William Nicholson. London, William Heinemann. With a gift inscription on the half tile "Madge Hamilton - from Winifred. Christmas 1919." Spine and part of cover faded, as usual. Some foxing, but a very good copy indeed. From the library of David Cornwell aka John Le Carré. Maggs Bros. Ltd., Catalogue 1526, John Le Carré: Books from The Library of Jane and David Cornwell at Tregiffian, Item 152.