Siegfried Sassoon | Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London, 1918, first edition, inscribed by the author to W.J. Turner

Siegfried Sassoon

Counter-Attack and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1918

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, original wrappers, collector's cloth slipcase, extremities slightly browned, wrappers starting to split along spine

Inscribed by the author to W. J. Turner, a fellow WW1 poet, and Sassoon's close friend (and sometime landlord). Turner received a review copy of Wilfred Owen's 1920 Poems and wrote reviews of the book for The Daily Herald and London Mercury (see lots 367-70). Sassoon wrote Lingual Exercises (1925) whilst lodging with Turner and his wife Delphine, in Tafton Street, London. No inscribed copies of this title has appeared at auction for 15 years.