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Books Night Club Girl by A.S.J. Tessimond T. E. Lawrence and Siegfried Sassoon - A Friendship _________________________________________________________________
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______________________________________________________________ T. E. Lawrence and Siegfried Sassoon - A Friendship Out of Print This was the text of the talk that Dennis Silk gave at the Imperial War Museum in 2007. The chance to put the names of two of my literary heroes together with his name on a title page was an opportunity that no self-respecting private press printer could allow to pass. The portrait illustration, engraved on boxwood by Jim Westergard, I suggested, might be the first published image of Sassoon and Lawrence together for even though Lawrence attended Sassoon's wedding no photograph of them both appears to exist. Bound by Chris Hicks, there were 120 copies.
______________________________________________________________ Out of Print This reprint of a schoolboy essay almost certainly by T. E. Lawrence was inspired not only by Lawrence the writer himself but by becoming infected with Paul Nash’s enthusiasm for the Corvinus Press. Thus it is a small homage to both Lawrence and Viscount Carlow, the press’s founder. John Randle, the proprietor of the Whittington Press commented: “Only you would mix Caslon and Corvinus, Miles”. There is a wood engraving by Ian Stephens. Paul Kershaw designed and hand printed the patterned paper, which is based on the pawl & ratchet of a canal lock paddle.
A Letter to Edmund Gosse, Forrest Reid. 2004, the letter in question being inside a presentation copy of Following Darkness which Reid had sent to Gosse asking for his opinion on the book.
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Horoscope for Diane, A. S. J. Tessimond. 2005. This was prompted by the discovery of a fulsome inscription to Diane from Tessimond in the front of a copy of Walls of Glass. In a commentary I muse on the possibility that this woman was perhaps more important to Tessimond than many of his other fleeting affairs. Wood engraved illustration by Paul Kershaw.
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