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First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp 280. Original publisher's blue buckram, lettered gilt on spine. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Limited edition of 300 copies, this being no. 66. Slight foxing to endpapers with some fading to spine and covers, otherwise a sound, clean, very good copy.

Pp. 280; tall demy 8vo; blue buckram, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards faintly soiled and rubbed, top corners a trifle bruised, lower board flecked; t.e.g., others uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1936. First limited edition, being one of 300 numbered copies on hand-made paper, signed by the author. Keynes A40b. *Third volume of the author's trilogy, following Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.

8vo., First Edition thus, Large Paper, on hand-made laid paper, free endpapers mildly browned as often; original blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned (but all gilt bright and clear), a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 127). This splendid edition of the final volume of the 'Sherston' trilogy is considerably scarcer than the signed edition of 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' of which 750 copies were printed. Keynes, A40b.

First editions. Three volumes. Royal octavo. pp 395; 334; 280. Blue buckram covers, top edges gilt. The first volume is partially unopened.Limited editions, each being numbered and signed by the author and printed on handmade paper. The first volume is one of 260 copies, the second one of 750 copies and the third one of 300 copies.The endpapers of the first and third volumes are tanned. Fading to the covers, mainly at the spine, of the first two volumes. A very good set.

Signed limited editions, each signed by the author, numbered 249 of 260, 166 of 750, and 91 of 300 copies respectively. The signed limited edition of Fox-Hunting Man, issued one month after the trade edition, "was an afterthought, made when the success of the ordinary edition was assured and the identity of the author known" (Keynes). The remaining titles were issued in both formats simultaneously. The Sherston trilogy is Sassoon's lightly fictionalized autobiography, detailing his lonely youth, his idle years as a country gentleman, and his military service on the Western Front. Immediately successful, the work "was awarded the Hawthornden and James Tait Black memorial prizes, and was quickly accepted as a classic of its kind - an elegy for a way of life which had gone forever" (ODNB). "Like Tolstoy's War and Peace, which he was also reading while he wrote his own book, it is the combination of factual detail and direct personal experience vividly rendered that makes Infantry Officer a convincing and compelling picture of war. As he told Ottoline [Morrell], he wanted to give 'a really truthful inner-narrative'. He believed that this had not yet been achieved by an English writer, apart from Blunden" (Wilson, p. 238). Sassoon considered the final instalment, Sherston's Progress, his best. It describes his recovery and return to the war after being treated by Dr W. H. R. Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital. Keynes A30b, A33b, A40b. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches, 2003. Three works, octavo. Original blue buckram, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. All housed in a custom blue cloth folding box. Printed on large handmade paper. Cloth notably brighter than usual, gentle fading mostly limited to spines, one corner bumped, inner hinges of first work split but firm, occasional spot and browning to free endpapers, otherwise clean. A near-fine set.