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Douglas (Lord Alfred) Poems, first edition, Siegfried Sassoon's copy with his ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper and comment "Alfred Douglas. Will probably be remembered as a minor poet of considerable charm & accomplishment. Will certainly be manifest (to those who take the trouble to investigate his career) as a treacherous and dishonourable cad. SS." to frontispiece recto, text in French and English, light browning to text, portrait frontispiece, Esher bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth, spine browned, light rubbing to extremities, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, Paris, 1896.

⁂ Sassoon's copy with his superb comments on Douglas's work and character.

Description

Douglas (Lord Alfred) Poems, first edition, Siegfried Sassoon's copy with his ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper and comment "Alfred Douglas. Will probably be remembered as a minor poet of considerable charm & accomplishment. Will certainly be manifest (to those who take the trouble to investigate his career) as a treacherous and dishonourable cad. SS." to frontispiece recto, text in French and English, light browning to text, portrait frontispiece, Esher bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth, spine browned, light rubbing to extremities, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, Paris, 1896.

⁂ Sassoon's copy with his superb comments on Douglas's work and character.

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