Jun 16, 2022 - Sale 2609

Sale 2609 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
INSCRIBED WITH TWO AUTOGRAPH POEMS SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. Selected Poems. Inscribed in holograph, with two Autograph Manuscripts Signed, each a complete fair copy of a poem. The inscription, "Kate Carter / Hotel Boulevard / Veytaux / 1935," on the front free endpaper. The poems, "'When I'm Alone'--The Words Tripped Off His Tongue," and "Strangeness of Heart," on the half-title and its facing page. Signed at the lower or upper edge. Small 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor rubbing to edges; short closed tear at lower edge of half-title, split between gatherings C and D, minor paper clip stains and toning touching poems; lacking dust jacket. London: Heinemann, (1935); inscription: Veytaux, 1935

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"Strangeness of Heart.
"When I have lost the power to feel the pang
"Which first I felt in childhood . . . .
"Let me go home for ever; I shall have heard
"Death; I shall know that I have lived too long."