INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY
Vigils
Privately Published for the author by Douglas Cleverdon, 1934.
First edition. One of 60 copies reserved for presentation from a greater issue of 272 copies, signed by the author. Original quarter terracotta buckram over buff paper covered boards. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to Florence Hardy, "Florence Hardy. from her friend [SS monogram]. Heytesbury June 1935". Two marginal pencil annotations by the author. Text engraved on copper with an engraved titlepage design by Stephen Gooden. A fine copy.
A fine association. Thomas Hardy had been a significant influence on Sassoon as a young poet and pair became close friends upon Sassoon's return from the war in 1918 until Hardy's death in 1928. Subsequently, Sassoon continued his association with the Max Gate in his friendship with Hardy's widow, Florence, describing her as one who "impresses me as being one the good and brave inhabitants of this unsatisfactory earth" (Diaries 1920-22)
Stock ID: 46601
£3,000.00
