John Masefield, Melloney Holtspur

First Edition 1922, Signed by John Masefield in black pen to the front free end paper and beneath this is an original photo. There is also a hand written poem that had been loosely inserted at pages 44/45 inside the book and these pages show a browned shape the size of the poem, so it must have been here for quite a while. It is a poem by Siegfried Sassoon, but is not in his hand. The writing is very similar to Masefield's, but there are a few letters that are not quite right. 

Condition: The book is bumped to the spine ends, there is a slight bump to the fore edge, the end papers are browned, the pages are foxed and there is a book-seller's small stamp to the top corner of the front pastedown.