SASSOON, Siegfried

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

London, William Heinemann, January 1920 ('New Impression')/ October 1919.

Duodecimo, 95 pages.

Red cloth with white title-labels on the spine and front cover; spine a little sunned; leading and bottom edges uncut; an excellent copy.

Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995), Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, with his armorial bookplate and pencilled ownership signature, and one pencilled emphasis to the final lines of 'Prelude: The Troops' ('The unreturning army that was youth; | The legions who have suffered and are dust').

Item #76269

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