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Paperback / softback. New.

no place: Privately Printed (1952). Near Fine. 1952. Hardcover. 165pp.; cloth in printed paper jacket with a few chips to top edges, and a short closed tear top spine corner; faded at extremities, spine tanned. Some offset tanning to endpapers The one page letter, only date 16 December, Somerville College, Oxford begins, "Dear Kathleen, I always feel very timid about choosing a book for you! . ." Mary Madge Lascelles, was a British literary scholar, specialising in Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, and Walter Scott. She was vice-principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1960, and a university lecturer then reader in English literature 1960 from to 1967 at the University of Oxford. Kathleen Tillotson was a British academic and literary critic, professor of English and distinguished Elizabethan and Victorian scholar. From the collection / stock of the late Ian Jackson, with seven lines of his notes in pencil on rear pastedown, i.e. "Kathleen Tillotson's… Read More

Privately printed, distributed by Simpkin Marshall, London., [1952]. First edition. Octavo. pp vii, 165. The author's reminiscences of William Morris, Mrs Oliphant, W.B. Yeats, George Meredith, Henry James, William James, Lucy Shaw and Mackenzie King. Signed by Georgina Sime on front free endpaper and again on the title-page. It is not quite clear what Frank Nicholson's function is.Free endpapers partially tanned. Edges spotted. Very good in very good dustwrapper faded at spine.

UK: Simpkin Marshal & Co, 1952. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1952. An envelope (unfortunately now empty), addressed to Sassoon and postmarked August 1952, was taped to the front endsheet. Sime and Sassoon corresponded in the 1950s and he owned several other books by her. From the Library of Siegfried Sassoon and Sold by Sotheby's in 1991.The book carries the Sassoon monogram which confirms that it came from his own library and was later sold at auction. Reminiscences of Georgina Sime (1868-1858), British writer, Sime's close friend Frank Nicholson was Librarian of the University of Edinburgh from 1910 to 1939. He was editor and collaborator for much of her work.. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Small corner bump. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Light edge rubbing. Part of a large library of Sassoon's books More images can be taken upon request. Ref17990