5 1/2 x 8 in. 245 pp. 1936 on title pg. Brown pictoral cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and ends of spine worn with light wear, faint water stain on spine and rear. Binding tight and text clean and unmarked with toning to endpapers. Fiction. RGR.
The Complete Memoirs Of George Sherston Three Volumes Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; Sherston's Progress; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Sassoon, Siegfried
The Complete Memoirs Of George Sherston Three Volumes Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; Sherston's Progress; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Sassoon, Siegfried
Publisher: Folio Society, London
Date published: 1993
Format: Hardcover
1993 First Printing. 3 Fine or Near Fine Hardbacks. Spine title panel of 'Fox-Hunting Man' very slightly rubbed. No inscriptions or bookplates. Near Fine slipcase. Slight marks to panels of slipcase. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb; John Lawrence. UK Postage £3.40; Airmail to USA and Canada £24.40; Airmail to most of the Rest of the World (including the EU), £24.40. If ordering from overseas, please check any additional tax and import duties payable in your country, which will be additional to the costs given here.
Collectible-Like New. From the library of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his custom bookplate on front pastedown. Slipcase Like New. (Folio Society, World War I, memoir, autobiography, fictionalized autobiography, war novel, coming of age)
280pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth , gilt lettering to spine. a very good copy. First edition. Third title in the semi-autobiographical sequence. The trilogy begins with "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man" (1928), followed by "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" (1930).
Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked, illustrated cloth in very good slip-case. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 171 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers) 1864-1922; 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918 ; Personal narratives, English; World War, 1914-1918 ; Biography; World War, 1914-1918 Hospitals; World War, 1914-1918 Medical care; World War, 1914-1918 Moral and ethical aspects; War neuroses; Pacifism. 1 Kg.
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY
Date published: 1936
Format: Hardcover
5-3/4" x 8-1/8", (x) + 245pp. Printed on acidic paper and bound in sewn signatures in putty gray cloth boards with illustration screened onto front panel and spine. Missing jacket. Spine is darkened / discolored, and the corners are bumped, otherwise minor soiling to cover. Fore edge is untrimmed, and there is brown edge tinting to top. End papers are tanned. Bookseller's sticker (Wakefield Bookshop in NYC) at foot of inside front cover. Binding is square and sound. Pages are tanned but clean and unmarked.
Good copy in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 280 pages. Subjects; Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967). 1 Kg.
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City
Date published: 1936
Format: Hardcover
Stated first edition, 1936, hardcover with decorative beige cloth boards no dust jacket. Octavo, 245pp. Some wear to boards and spine, spine faded. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Third volume of Sassoon's "autobiography" - covers Sassoon's time at Craiglockhart later fictionalised by Pat Barker in her novel "Regeneration".
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Sherston's Progress. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles and [I & II] Drawings by Lynton Lamb [III] .by John Lawrence
SASSOON, Siegfried
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Sherston's Progress. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles and [I & II] Drawings by Lynton Lamb [III] .by John Lawrence
SASSOON, Siegfried
Publisher: London: The Folio Society (1993)
Date published: 1993
Three volumes, first printings thus, 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Decorative cloth, slipcases, an excellent set.
Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: Copy from the P. S. L. Physical description: 13-280 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects: Sassoon, Siegfried 1886-1967; 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918 ; Personal narratives, English; World War, 1914-1918 Literature and the war; World War, 1914-1918 ; Personal narratives, English; World War, 1914-1918 ; Fiction; Writers Memoirs; World War, 1914-1918; Anti-war fiction - World War I. 1 Kg.
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York
Date published: 1936
Format: Hardcover
Pictorial cloth scene on front cover, "In Sherston's Progress we are carried through the final dark days of the war, with their disillusionment , through shell-shock, asylums, through green Irish hunting fields, Egyptian encampments, the futile muddy terror of French trenches, to a final understanding of the world within as molded by external circumstance." 245 pages. few minor edge chips to pictorial dustjacket and to spine of DJ. Rear DJ a bit faded.
1936, First Edition, 280 pp. Hardcover, blue cloth, 8vo., gilt title. Faint sunning and rubbing to spine; slight leant to spine as well. Light foxing to text-blocks; previous owner's erasable pencil note on fly leaf; clean and unmarked text. The final book of Sassoon's most famous trilogy.
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