Siegfried Sassoon's copy of the first, unexpurgated issue of Robert Graves's Good-bye To All That (1929), annotated and with clippings. Sassoon's annotations include personal comments, many critical, and factual corrections, most relating to Graves's account of his service in the war. Clippings, pasted in and loose, include reviews, illustrations, and letters to the editor. With one typescript reply to Sassoon from publisher Jonathan Cape, dated November 1929, identifying corrections to be made, at Sassoon's request, to the remaining, undistributed copies of the first issue.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some clippings in Swedish, Dutch, and French., Purchased from Christie's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2007., Robert Graves (1895-1985), English author., and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), English author.
Subject (Name):
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. Good-bye to all that., Graves, Robert,--1895-1985., Jonathan Cape (Firm), and Sassoon, Siegfried,--1886-1967.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, English.
De i commentarii del viaggio in Persia di m. Caterino Zeno il K. & delle guerre fatte nell’ imperio
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Carta da navegar de Nicolo et Antonio Zeni furono III Tramontana lano MCCCLXXX
Description:
Following p. 58., Map is linen backed., Map paper mutilated at lower right edge of margin revealing linen backing with no loss of text., Scale not given., and Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration --Italian --Early works to 1800 and Greenland --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Zeno, Antonio, d. ca. 1405, Zeno, Niccolo, 1515-1565, and Zeno, Niccolo, d. ca. 1395
A scene in which a man stands behind a pregnant woman holding an hourglass. To the left of the couple there is a grapevine, as well as other assorted plants and flowers.; to the right, a lighthouse behind a sailing vessel upon turbulent waters. Above, starting from the left, can be seen the sun, a shooting star, and a caduceus amongst four stars.
A variant of second state of the latinized atlas version of "Le Japon divisé en soissante et six provinces ...," with date "1715" below imprint. See: Lutz Walter, Japan: a cartographic vision, entry OAG 73 and Includes inset of Nagasaki and its surroundings.
Subject (Geographic):
Japan--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Ottens, Joachim, 1663-1719, publisher and Ruyter, Balthasar, engraver