
Property of a Gentleman
Lot Closed
July 18, 04:30 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Siegfried Sassoon
Poems: Selected by Dennis Silk. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Marlborough College Press, 1958
FIRST EDITION, THE EDITOR/PUBLISHER'S OWN COPY, NUMBER 47 OF 150 COPIES, INITIALLED BY SASSOON, original calf, slight stain at foot of spine, an excellent copy
Initialled by Sassoon on the limitation leaf and signed by Silk at the end of his preface. Printed and published by Marlborough College pupils and staff. (Sassoon had been a student there, as had Charles Sorley). Silk was a professional cricketer before becoming the headmaster.