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Sassoon, Siegfried
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Rhymed Ruminations. London: The Chiswick Press, 1939
- paper
small 8vo (160 x 99mm.), FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, ONE OF 75 COPIES printed for the author and Geoffrey Keynes, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS PUBLISHER GEOFFREY FABER ("Geoffrey Faber, from SS") on front endpaper, title page designed by Laurence Whistler, original brown paper-covered boards, edges untrimmed, collector's clamshell box
Literature
Keynes A44a
Condition
Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, when appropriate.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Loosely inserted is Sassoon's accompanying letter to Faber (on Heytesbury House headed notepaper, 21 August 1939), sent just before the outbreak of the Second World War: "I am sending you my little book of verse, hoping that it will be some compensation for my inability to do any prose since this Hitlerism blighted my mental agility. Must we fight these barbarians? Anyhow, poetry will survive their atrocities...". Faber was of course the publisher of Sassoon's mainstream poetry and also of his autobiographical writings Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.