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London : William Heinemann, 1919. First edition : [one of 2,000 copies]. A collection of sixty-four poems, a dozen or so previously unpublished and forming, in Sassoon's words, his definitive "tract against war".
Crown 8vo. (96)pp. Original red cloth, with white paper title-labels printed in black (in a design by William Nicholson) on upper cover and spine; spine a little sunned and very slightly dented and bruised; a few edge-spots; lacks front free endpaper; endpapers faintly tanned, but otherwise a very good copy, without the usual chipping, wear and discolouration to the fragile labels. With the contemporary ownership inscription of E. J. Ingram. Keynes A20.

£400

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London : Faber & Faber, (1940). First trade edition. A collection of forty-two poems - nine more than the privately printed edition of seventy-five copies produced the previous year.
Demy 8vo. 52,[iv]pp. Original powder-blue cloth, lettered down spine in gilt; a few slight spots, but a very good copy in a lightly used and slightly nicked dust-jacket - a little tanned at spine. Keynes A44c.

£40

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