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Title:
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The Old Huntsman and Other Poems
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Keynes:
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A15
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann
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Date:
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1917
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Description:
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Collection of 72 Poems
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|
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Title:
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Four Poems (Picture from Alan Hewer)
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Keynes:
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A16
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Publisher:
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The Cambridge Magazine
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Date:
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1918
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Description:
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Reprints from The Cambridge Magazine.
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Title:
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Counter-Attack and Other Poems
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Keynes:
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A17
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann
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Date:
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1918
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|
Description:
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Collection of 39 Poems
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|
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Title:
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A Literary Editor
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|
Keynes:
|
A18
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Publisher:
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Daily Herald
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Date:
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1919
|
|
Description:
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Poems and Announcements
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|
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Title:
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Picture Show (Picture from Alan Hewer)
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|
Keynes:
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A19
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed
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Date:
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1919
|
|
Description:
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Collection of 34 Poems
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|
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Title:
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War Poems
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|
Keynes:
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A20
|
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann
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Date:
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1919
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 64 Poems
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|
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Title:
|
Lines Written in the Reform Club
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|
Keynes:
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A21
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Publisher:
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Favil Press
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|
Date:
|
1921
|
|
Description:
|
38 Lines in the Eighteenth Century Manner
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Title:
|
Recreations
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|
Keynes:
|
A22
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Publisher:
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Printed for the Author by the Chiswick Press
|
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Date:
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1923
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 24 Poems
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|
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|
|
Title:
|
Lingual Exercises
|
|
Keynes:
|
A23
|
|
Publisher:
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Privately Printed, Cambridge University Press
|
|
Date:
|
1925
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 21 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Selected Poems
|
|
Keynes:
|
A24
|
|
Publisher:
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William Heinemann Ltd
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|
Date:
|
1925 (The dust jacket shown is a January 1935 7th Edition)
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 67 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Augustan Books of Modern Poetry
|
|
Keynes:
|
A25
|
|
Publisher:
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Ernest Benn Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1926
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 32 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Augustan Books of Poetry No. 28
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|
Keynes:
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Not Collated
|
|
Publisher:
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Ernest Benn Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1933
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 32 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Satirical Poems
|
|
Keynes:
|
A26
|
|
Publisher:
|
William Heinemann Ltd
|
|
Date:
|
1926
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 32 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Satirical Poems (Second English Edition)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A26c
|
|
Publisher:
|
William Heinemann Ltd
|
|
Date:
|
1933
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 37 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Nativity, Ariel Poems No. 7
|
|
Keynes:
|
A27a
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1927
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Nativity, Ariel Poems No. 7 (Limited Edition)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A27b
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1927
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
The Heart’s Journey (Signed Limited Edition of 590 copies) (See below)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A28
|
|
Publisher:
|
New York: Crosby Gaige. London: William Heinemann Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1927
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 28 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
The Heart’s Journey
|
|
Keynes:
|
A28b
|
|
Publisher:
|
William Heinemann Ltd
|
|
Date:
|
1928
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 35 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
To My Mother, Ariel Poems No. 14
|
|
Keynes:
|
A29a
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1928
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
To My Mother, Ariel Poems No. 14 (Limited Edition) (See bottom of page)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A29b
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1928
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem. This book was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies each signed by the author, this is copy number 169.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
A Suppressed Poem
|
|
Keynes:
|
A31
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed ‘The Unknown Press.’
|
|
Date:
|
Dated 1919 but could not have been before 1929
|
|
Description:
|
Verse Poem first published in ‘Good-Bye To All That’ by Robert Graves.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
On Chatterton (Library photo)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A22
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed (Blakeney’s Press)
|
|
Date:
|
1930
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
In Sicily
|
|
Keynes:
|
A34a
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1930
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
In Sicily, Ariel Poems No. 27 (Limited Edition)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A34b
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Faber Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1930
|
|
Description:
|
Poem. This copy No.310 of 400, signed by Sassoon
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Poems by Pinchbeck Lyre
|
|
Keynes:
|
A35
|
|
Publisher:
|
Duckworth
|
|
Date:
|
1931
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 14 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
To The Red Rose, Ariel Poems No. 34
|
|
Keynes:
|
A36a
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Faber Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1931
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
To The Red Rose, Ariel Poems No. 34 (Limited Ed) (See bottom of page)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A36b
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Faber Ltd.
|
|
Date:
|
1931
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem. This copy No.387 of 400, signed by Sassoon
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Prehistoric Burials (Borzoi Chapbooks)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A37
|
|
Publisher:
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
|
Date:
|
1932
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
The Road to Ruin (See bottom of page))
|
|
Keynes:
|
A38
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Faber
|
|
Date:
|
1933
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 7 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Vigils (Limited Edition)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A39
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed
|
|
Date:
|
1934
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 22 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Vigils (Proposal)
|
|
Keynes:
|
Mentioned with A39
|
|
Publisher:
|
Douglas Cleverdon
|
|
Date:
|
1934
|
|
Description:
|
Proposal for Privately Printed Edition of Vigils
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Vigils (Large Paper Edition)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A39b
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed
|
|
Date:
|
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Vigils (Vellum Edition)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A39c
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed
|
|
Date:
|
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Vigils
|
|
Keynes:
|
A39d
|
|
Publisher:
|
William Heinemann Ltd
|
|
Date:
|
1935
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 35 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
On Poetry
|
|
Keynes:
|
A43
|
|
Publisher:
|
University of Bristol
|
|
Date:
|
1939
|
|
Description:
|
A Lecture
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Rhymed Ruminations (Limited Edition) (Auction photo)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A44a
|
|
Publisher:
|
Chiswick Press
|
|
Date:
|
1939
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 33 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Rhymed Ruminations (Special Edition of 3 Copies)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A44b
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed
|
|
Date:
|
1931
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 33 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Rhymed Ruminations
|
|
Keynes:
|
A44c
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Faber
|
|
Date:
|
1940
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 42 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Poems Newly Selected
|
|
Keynes:
|
A45
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Faber
|
|
Date:
|
1940
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 58 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Early Morning Long Ago
|
|
Keynes:
|
A46
|
|
Publisher:
|
Chiswick Press
|
|
Date:
|
1941
|
|
Description:
|
Excerpt from The Weald of Youth
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Two Poems
|
|
Keynes:
|
A48
|
|
Publisher:
|
Hamo Sassoon
|
|
Date:
|
1941
|
|
Description:
|
Two Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Augustan Book
|
|
Keynes:
|
A50
|
|
Publisher:
|
Eyre & Spottiswoode
|
|
Date:
|
1943
|
|
Description:
|
A Collection of 48 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Collected Poems
|
|
Keynes:
|
A52a
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Faber Ltd
|
|
Date:
|
1947
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 299 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Common Chords (See below)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A54
|
|
Publisher:
|
Stanford Dingley, the Mill House Press
|
|
Date:
|
1950
|
|
Description:
|
A Collection of 18 Poems, Limited to 107 copies.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Emblems of Experience
|
|
Keynes:
|
A55
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed, The Rampant Lion Press
|
|
Date:
|
1951
|
|
Description:
|
A Collection of 20 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
The Tasking (Auction photo)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A56
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed, University Press, Cambridge
|
|
Date:
|
1954
|
|
Description:
|
A Collection of 24 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
An Adjustment
|
|
Keynes:
|
A57
|
|
Publisher:
|
Raymond Lister
|
|
Date:
|
1955
|
|
Description:
|
A Drama
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Sequences
|
|
Keynes:
|
A58a
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Faber
|
|
Date:
|
1956
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 62 Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Sequences (Limited Edition of 25 for the Author)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A58b
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed
|
|
Date:
|
1956
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 58 Poems
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
Poems
|
|
Keynes:
|
A59
|
|
Publisher:
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The Marlborough College Press
|
|
Date:
|
1958
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 58 Poems
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
Lenten Illuminations
|
|
Keynes:
|
A60a
|
|
Publisher:
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Privately Printed, University Press, Cambridge
|
|
Date:
|
1958
|
|
Description:
|
Two Poems
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Title:
|
Lenten Illuminations (Offprint Edition) (See bottom of page)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A60b
|
|
Publisher:
|
Downside Review
|
|
Date:
|
1959
|
|
Description:
|
Two Poems
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
Lenten Illuminations (Offprint Limited Edition)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A60c
|
|
Publisher:
|
Privately Printed, University Press, Cambridge
|
|
Date:
|
1959
|
|
Description:
|
Two Poems
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
Rogation
|
|
Keynes:
|
A61
|
|
Publisher:
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Marlborough College Press
|
|
Date:
|
1960
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
The Path to Peace (Ordinary Limited Edition) (See bottom of page)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A62a
|
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Publisher:
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Stanbrook Abbey Press
|
|
Date:
|
1960
|
|
Description:
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A Collection of 29 Poems. This book was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, this is copy number 388
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|
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|
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Title:
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The Path to Peace (Special Limited Edition)
|
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Keynes:
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A62b
|
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Publisher:
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Stanbrook Abbey Press
|
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Date:
|
1960
|
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Description:
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A Collection of 29 Poems
|
|
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Title:
|
Proposal The Path to Peace
|
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Keynes:
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A62b Associated
|
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Publisher:
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Stanbrook Abbey Press
|
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Date:
|
1960
|
|
Description:
|
A Collection of 29 Poems
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
Awaitment
|
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Keynes:
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A Separate insert in The Path to Peace
|
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd
|
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Date:
|
1960
|
|
Description:
|
The Poem ‘Awaitment’
|
|
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Title:
|
Collected Poems 1908 - 1956
|
|
Keynes:
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A63
|
|
Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd
|
|
Date:
|
1961
|
|
Description:
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Collection of 361 Poems
|
|
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Title:
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An Octave (Limited Edition of 350, this No. 307) (See below)
|
|
Keynes:
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Not Collated
|
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Publisher:
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Shenval Press
|
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Date:
|
1966
|
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Description:
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Collection of 8 Poems, in Slipcase
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|
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|
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Title:
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Something About Myself (See below)
|
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Keynes:
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Not Collated
|
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Publisher:
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Stanbrook Abbey Press
|
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Date:
|
1966
|
|
Description:
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A Poem
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The Heart’s Journey, Signed, Limited Edition
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The Heart’s Journey, First English Limited Edition (Keynes A28). New York: Crosby Gaige, London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1927. This edition was limited to 590 copies, of which 250 were for sale in the United Kingdom, each copy being signed by the author, Siegfried Sassoon.
Left: Printed front of the dust jacket. right: Title page, with Sassoon’s full signature between the two rosettes.
The book contained 28 poems and this particular copy is uncut, the top edges of each pair of pages remain joined together.
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Lenten Illuminations ( Inscribed from Rumer Godden to Elenor Farjeon)
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Lenten Illuminations and Sight Sufficient (Keynes A60b), by Siegfried Sassoon, published in 1959 by the Downside Abbey Press. This copy is inscribed to Elenor (Farjeon) from Rumer (Godden).
Farjeon (1881-1965) was an English author and Catholic who published many books, mostly for children. She also wrote the song “Morning Has Broken.” Her brother, Herbert, was a conscientious objector and a supporter of Sassoon during the period of his protest.
Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was also a prodigious author, turning to Catholicism in the early 1950’s. She wrote among other books, ‘The Black Narcissus’ and ‘Greengage Summer.’
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The Road to Ruin (with review slip)
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The Road to Ruin, (Keynes A38) First Edition, published by Faber and Faber in 1933. The book is collection of seven poems warning of a future war.
This book came with a Review Slip (right) from the publisher asking the recipient to write a review and stating that the book was to be published on November 9th, 1933, at 2/6 net. The slip goes on to request that the review should not appear before the date of publication.
Thanks to my wife Mandy who gave me this book today (2011) for my birthday.
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To The Red Rose (Signed, Limited Edition)
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To the Red Rose (Keynes A36b), by Siegfried Sassoon, published on 8th October, 1931, by Faber & Faber. Illustration inside by Stephen Tennant.
This edition, number ‘387’ is one of only 400 copies published and is signed and numbered by Siegfried Sassoon.
It was preceded by the Ordinary Edition (Keynes A36), which was No. 34 of the Ariel Poems series.
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The Path To Peace - By Siegfried Sassoon
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The Path To Peace, By Siegfried Sassoon, published in 1960 by the Stanbrook Abbey Press. This hardback book contains 29 poems, one, Awaitment, was laid in loose. The text is printed in black and blue on Hodgkinson’s handmade paper. The initial to the first line of the first poem is done by hand in burnished gold, the first initial to all of the other poems is done by hand in red. In the copy collated by Keynes, (A62), the ‘A’ in Awaitment is done by hand in green, in the copy I have, (right), which once belonged to Siegfried Sassoon, the ‘E’ is in red. The book has a cellophane dust jacket (top left).
(Top right) Towards the back of the book the following details are printed: “This book is handset in Jan van Krimpen’s Romulus Cancellaresca Bastarda printed in Great Britain at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, during September & October 1960 bound by George Percival and Rigby Graham in a limited edition of 500 copies, comprising 20 copies on Millbourne handmade paper, bound in full vellum hand-lettered & gilded by Margaret Adams 480 copies on W. S. H. handmade paper, quarter-bound in vellum hand-lettered initials. Copy number 388 initials by Wendy Westover, gilding by Margaret Adams.” |
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An Octave - By Siegfried Sassoon
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An Octave, By Siegfried Sassoon, a hardback book with slipcase, published on 8th September 1966 “By a small group of his many friends and admirers.” There is a long list of subscribers at the back of the book which was printed by the Shenval Press, and has an Introduction by Charles Causley who wrote that the book contained a “group of [eight] devotional poems written at intervals during the seven years following 1957.” This book was printed in a limited edition of 350 copies, of which 100 were presented to Sassoon on his eightieth birthday and 250 were reserved for subscribers. This copy is number 307.
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Common Chords - By Siegfried Sassoon
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Common Chords, By Siegfried Sassoon, (Keynes A54), published in 1950 by Stanford Dingley and the Mill House Press. This hardback book of 18 poems was printed in a limited edition of 107 copies on handmade paper, seven of which were printed on white parchment. The two word title was printed in blue, and the titles of each poem in crimson.
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Something About Myself - By Siegfried Sassoon
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Something About Myself, By Siegfried Sassoon, published in 1966 by the Stanbrook Abbey Press. This book, which was a short biography of a cat, written by Sassoon when he was eleven, was printed in a limited edition of 220 copies on handmade paper and was presented in a buckram flapcase. Printed on the second front endpaper: ‘From the manuscript MORE POEMS by S. L. Sassoon, with illustrations. For Mamsy from Siegfried. October 20th-December 25th, 1897.’ Printed on the rear endpaper: ‘Written and illustrated by Margaret Adams reproduced from line blocks made by Siviter Smith Ltd. printed in England at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester on Millbourn Lexpar. Cover paper by Barcham Green Ltd. September 8th 1966.’
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