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British & Irish Poetry: 9 works

Lot 312
29.09.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 312 | British & Irish Poetry: 9 works
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
A group of nine volumes, comprising:

Edith SITWELL (1887-1964). The Mother and Other Poems. Oxford: Printed for the Author by B.H. Blackwell, 1915.
First edition, association copy inscribed by Robert Graves to Siegfried Sassoon. Small quarto. Original wrappers lettered in black (light wear at extremities); housed in custom black cloth chemise and black morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: Robert Graves (1895-1985, English poet; presentation inscription to:) – Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967, English poet).

YEATS, W.B. (1865-1939). The Tower. London: Macmillan and Co., 1928.
First edition: a fine copy in the dust-jacket. Octavo. 2 pp. publisher's ads at end (faint browning to endpapers, a few spots at edges). Original green cloth, spine and upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed (corners just rubbed); original dust-jacket (minimal wear). Provenance: Coman Leavenworth (American poet who beat Allen Ginsberg to the award of 'Poet Most Likely to Succeed' at Columbia University; bookplate).

HOUSMAN, A. E. (1859-1936). A Shropshire Lad. London: The Richards Press Limited, 1932. [Sold with:] – Last Poems. London: The Richards Press Limited, 1933.
Later editions, each signed by the author on the half-title. Together 2 volumes, small octavo. (Some light browning and marginal marks.) Original cloth lettered in black, top edges gilt (spines sunned, lacking dust-jackets); housed together in a custom cloth box. Provenance: R. B. Marriott (pencil ownership inscriptions on endpapers).

SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919.
First edition in the original dust-jacket. Small octavo. (Faint creasing, a few light spots.) Original red cloth, printed paper labels to spine and upper cover (lightly bumped and marked, endpapers faintly browned, light wear to front pastedown resulting from label excision); original printed dust-jacket (spine and upper edge sunned, corners nicked, small chip at head of spine). Provenance: G. H. ?Foswell (ownership inscription on endpaper).

BROOKE, Rupert (1887-1915). 1914 and other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1915.
First edition. Octavo. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author, additional spine label tipped-in on rear endpaper (endpapers lightly browned and spotted). Original publisher's cloth, paper spine label (a few faint marks, small bubble to cloth on upper cover). Provenance: John Herbert Bankes (bookplate).

BROOKE, Rupert (1887-1915). Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911.
First edition. Octavo. (A few leaves with offset browning.) Original publisher's cloth, printed paper label on spine (cloth lightly rubbed).

OWEN, Wilfred (1893-1918). Poems. With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920.
First edition. Quarto. Frontispiece sepia photograph of the author in uniform (light spotting). Full red morocco by the Chelsea Bindery).

BETJEMAN, Sir John (1906-1984). Summoned by Bells. London: John Murray, 1960.
First edition, limited issue, number 75 of 125 signed copies. Large octavo. Engraved frontispiece. Original green calf, covers with bell pattern gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (very minor rubbing at extremities); housed in a card slipcase.


Place of origin:United Kingdom
Auction house category:Printed books
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