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[Sassoon, Siegfried] Cohen, Joseph. The Three Roles of Siegfried Sassoon, offprint from Tulane Studies in English, Volume VII, Cohen's tipped in compliment slip inscribed with manuscript verse by Sassoon in pencil: "Joe, with your professional permit/I shall persist in role of hermit/Retaining - with your kind consent -/My neck and role of country gent./As for your talk of 'angry prophet'/Cohen, for mothball's sake, come off it
" and a few pencil annotations in text, loosely inserted is a page of comments, addressed to Dennis Silk by "R" [ Reginald Jennings, a master at Marlborough] 21.v.1958. original green wrappers, New Orleans: Tulane University, 1957; Collected Poems, first English edition, dust jacket, London: Faber and Faber, 1947 [Keynes A52a]; Keynes, Geoffrey. A Bibliography…, inscribed to Dennis Silk, signed with initials, 4 May 1962, accompanying ALS, 2pp., of the same date, Lammas House, with autograph pencil list of poems by Sassoon, on Heytesbury House headed paper, 1p., n.d. and Dennis Silk's Lords Taveners membership card, 2011, loosely inserted, dust jacket, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962; and 16 others by or about Sassoon, including Patrick Campbell. A Study of the War Poetry, 1999, mostly original cloth, 8vo. (12)
