23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Sassoon (Siegfried).
The Path to Peace, Selected Poems by Siegfried Sassoon.
Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960, numbered limited edition of 500 copies, presentation copy from the author to Father Gerard Sitwell (of Ampleforth Abbey) with Sassoon’s monogram signature, quarto, [x], 34 pages, additional ‘Awaitment’ poem loosely inserted, quarter vellum binding with decorative paper boards, torn acetate wrapper.
Sold for £300
Estimated at £150 - £250
Contents Fine, no other inscriptions found. Page edges slightly toned, small stain to lower fore-edge of front free endpaper (see image). Glue residue to recto of rear free endpaper (see image). Acetate wrapper torn (with loss) and a little soiled (see images).
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024
The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints.
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