Siegfried Sassoon: A Poet & His Library by Max Egremont

New York: Grolier Club, 2001. First Edition. Staplebound pamphlet, 23 pages in decorative printed wrappers. The complete text of the 2001 Robert L. Nikirk Lecture, New Series, Number 2 at the Grolier Club, a private club comprised of a society of bibliophiles in New York City. Fine fresh copy. Siegrfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. He was decorated on the Western Front and became one of the leading poets of the First World War. From the conclusion of the lecture: “Books had been a refuge and an inspiration: reassuring examples too of the long, possibly endless, lives of their authors. They had become an inseparable part of him, so much so that he could say, ‘What an old library of life I am.’” (Inventory #: 22789E)