ID: 1462
Satirical Poems.
SASSOON, Siegfried

Category: First Edition, Poetry, Signed

Place/Publisher/Date:
London, William Heinemann. 1926.

Description: First edition; 8vo; original blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper board. Presentation copy, inscribed to '"Dame". Nellie. With love from SS [Monogram]. June 1st 1926. Nellie Burton was the landlady of 40 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, where Robbie Ross (once Oscar Wilde's closest and most loyal friend) offered hospitality in the First World War to Sassoon, Owen, Graves and other young soldier-poets on leave from the front. Nellie had originally been Ross's mother's maid. She was a 'huge, forthright woman whom Sassoon came to adore - she called him "my beloved Saint Siegfried" - and a fierce protector of her gentleman lodgers'. (Egremont, Sassoon 2005 p84). Fine in a very good dust jacket, a little dusty and rubbed. Two small neat booklabels to front past down.

Price £1,250.00