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Siegfried Sassoon | Poems, Selected by Dennis Silk, 1958, first edition, editor/publisher's own copy, signed

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July 18, 04:30 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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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.