Silver Wedding and other Poems [and] The Muse and the Mastiff. A Dramatic Poem. Part I.
SASSOON, (Siegfried).; HODGSON (Ralph).
Illustrated by the author. First editions. 8vo., original red and yellow printed wrappers. Printed by the Boerner Printing Co. Minerva, Ohio, for the Author. 1941 & 1942
Both inscribed on the front endpapers "S.S. from R.H." in November 1941 and July 1942. These pamphlets bear the imprint on the lower wrappers of "Packington's Pound late 'Flying Fame' " and the first is identified as the superior coloured issue, priced at 50 cents rather than 25: The Muse and the Mastiff has a pencil note to the printer on page 9. Both are in an original mailing envelope addressed to Sassoon, and noted as passed by the censor
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