Annotated copy of Good-bye to all that.

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Annotated copy of Good-bye to all that.

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Siegfried Sassoon's copy of the first, unexpurgated issue of Robert Graves's Good-bye To All That (1929), annotated and with clippings. Sassoon's annotations include personal comments, many critical, and factual corrections, most relating to Graves's account of his service in the war. Clippings, pasted in and loose, include reviews, illustrations, and letters to the editor. With one typescript reply to Sassoon from publisher Jonathan Cape, dated November 1929, identifying corrections to be made, at Sassoon's request, to the remaining, undistributed copies of the first issue.

1 v. (448 p.) : ill. ; 20.5 cm.

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Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967

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Poet and writer Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Matfield in Kent. His mother, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, was from a prominent family of sculptors and artists, while his father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. His father left home when he was seven and died soon after, so Siegfried and his brothers, Michael and Hamo, were raised solely by their mother. Educated at Marlborough College (1902-4), Sassoon read law at Cl...

Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

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Robert (Von Ranke) Graves was born in London in 1895. He attended King's College School and Rokeby School, Wimbledon, Copthorne School, Sussex, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, 1907-14. In 1926, he received a B. Litt. From St. John's College, Oxford. He was the author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, autobiographies, historical novels, essays, librettos, criticism, short stories, and children’s books. Graves also translated and edited a number of works. He died in 1985 in Deya, Majorca, Sp...

Jonathan Cape (Firm)

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