Lot 282
Sassoon, Siegfried. Vigils, number 226 of 272 copies, signed by the author, engraved on copper by Charles Sigrist, engraved frontispiece by Stephen Gooden original brown cloth-backed boards, 8vo, [Bristol: Privately Published], May, 1934 [Keynes A39, see note on p. 91]
Loosely inserted is an ALS from Fr. Martin [Salmon], Downside Abbey, to Dennis Silk, 27 February 1985, in which he refers to SS's Diaries 1923-25, "…written from the edge of a society which he recognised to be empty - while conscious of being drained by the years of war & post-war himself." 2pp., folded
