Baedeker's Southern Germany - Association copy from the library of Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon - 1914

UK: Baedeker, 1914. 5th or later Printing. Cloth. Good ++. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 12th Edition 1914. Baedeker, Karl: Southern Germany (Wurtemburg and Bavaria) Leipzig, London & New York: Karl Baedeker, 1914. xxx,388pp. plus folding maps, city plans, and illustrations.12mo. Limp red cloth. Somewhat used and rubbed, with a shallow tidemark at the top edges of the first dozen or so leaves, a couple of maps slightly proud at the fore-edge, front inner hinge cracking slightly, but a good, sound, well-travelled copy. The Twelfth Revised edition, and the last edition published before the outbreak of the Great War. At the beginning of September 1928 Sassoon set out in his newly acquired, red Packard, on a road trip to Munich, to meet his lover, Stephen Tennant. Tennant had left Britain on the 21st of January for a holiday in the Bavarian Alps hoping that the air might help his lungs. Later, on the 5th of September, Sassoon drove from Munich to Haus Hirth, a guesthouse in the mountains at Untergrainau, near Garmisch, to meet up Tennant. This book specifically covers the areas travelled by Sassoon, including Munich and Untergrainau. In the days before sat nav these books were essential to travellers crossing Europe by road and coming from Sassoon's own library I strongly believe that he navigated his way across Germany using this actual book. He visited this area on a number of occasions. An evocative association copy from the library of Siegfried Sassoon, with the posthumous Sotheby's auction library dispersal sale label on the verso of the front free end-sheet. From the Library of Siegfried Sassoon and Sold by Sotheby's in 1991. Book is good++ and bright. Contents good. Part of a large library of Sassoon's books More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18035