ISBN10: 1860661513, ISBN13: 9781860661518, [publisher: London. Richard Cohen Books. /Metro Publishing Ltd] Hardcover First Edition London. Richard Cohen Books. /Metro Publishing Ltd. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1 to copyright page). Hard Cover. Crown Octavo 7½" by 5" (190 mm x 126 mm) approx. 344 pp. Green textured cloth with gilt titles to the spine. One corner and the spine head are gently bumped and the spine heel is softened. Minor only. Boards are clean and unmarked. Forty two black and white glossy photographs in the text. Unclipped dust wrapper has a light knock at the upper leading corner and spine ends; again minor. Book and jacket are both near fine. An essentially private person, Siegfried Sassoon's work nevertheless constitutes a chorus of self-revelation. John Stuart Roberts has written the first full length biography of this complex man. His friendships and contacts ranged widely from Thomas Hardy and Edmund Gosse to the Sitwells, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, T.E. Lawrence, Eddie Marsh and Stephen Tennant.;In writing this biography, John Stuart Roberts has had access to much unpublished material, including the Hart-Davis papers which contain the diaries covering the last 30 years of Sassoon's life, and also to correspondence between Sassoon and Eddie Marsh, Edmund Blunden and Dame Felicitas Corrigan OSB.;His interviews have ranged from Mother Margaret Mary to cricketer Dennis Silk and ...
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