27th Nov, 2024 10:00

Books & Works on Paper
 
  Lot 141
 

Sassoon (Siegfried) The Path to Peace, with an autograph letter, signed

Sassoon (Siegfried)

The Path to Peace, Limited edition, one of 500 copies, printed in blue and black, initials in red, title-vignette in gold, with an inserted autograph letter signed with initials, 1p., additional poem "Awaitment" on Barcham Green paper loosely inserted (often missing), original vellum-backed decorative boards, 4to, Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960.

***The Letter is headed from Heytesbury House, Warminster, Wilts, dated 6.4.61, to Mr. Nigel Seligman, "It is such a lovely book, and the selection so well made. It was all thought of and made by one of the Benedictine nuns (who is organist & choir mistress at the Abbey) - and no one is making any profit out of it. All the printing was done by one nun - an astonishing performance. The poems at the end are the only ones I have written since I became a Catholic. You say that You have been struggling spiritually in discomfort. O that I could help you."

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