Siegfried Sassoon — The Tasking

Cambridge , University Press, 1954. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce limited anthology of work by leading English war poet Siegfried Sassoon. A very scarce limited edition of 100 copies. This copy unnumbered and out of series.In the publisher's original quarter cloth, with marbled paper boards. A collection from English war poet, writer and soldier, Siegried Sassoon, who was awarded for his bravery on the Western Front and became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His verses depict the horrors of the trenches and satirise the patriotic motivations of a jingoism-fuelled war, a notion which is reflected in his lone protest against the continuation of war with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917. In the publisher's original quarter cloth, with marbled paper boards. Externally, excellent, with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .