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Tall 8vo, blue cloth (spine lightly sunned). London: Faber & Faber 1930. Limited First Edition. No. 173 of 300 signed copies on hand-made paper.

Faber & Gwyer Limited; London, 1928-1936. Hardcover. Complete 3 Volume Set. First UK Editions. A Fair to Good, blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spines, binding intact, sunning to spines and along board edges, some scattered foxing to board and spine buckram, bit of fraying and crimping to spine edges, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, age toning to pages, some scattered foxing to front and back matters, tear to rear joint buckram of Sherstons Progress also has spine lean and previous owner small bookplate affirmed to front pastedown, without Dust wrapper. A good and overall clean set. 16mo[sextodecimo or approx. 5.25 x 7.5], (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man) 395pp., (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer) 334pp., Sherstons Progress) 280pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

Original binding of blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top page edge gilt, fore and bottom pages untrimmed. Edition limited to 300 copies, of which this is number 41. Signed by the author to the limitation page. Endpapers browned, bookshop adhesive to front pastedown, otherwise the book is in very good condition in good condition slightly spine faded covers, which are rubbed to top corners.

First edition. 12mo. 280pp. Blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt and publisher's postcard laid in. Near fine with some toning to the boards, couple small bumps and light wrinkle to the rear board in near fine lightly toned dust jacket with the uncommon publisher's wraparound band light faded at the spine. The story of George Sherston, the semi-autobiographical figure, also featured in Sassoon's *Memoirs of Fox-Hunting Man* and *Memoirs of an Infantry Officer*. [Keynes A40a].

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 of each volume; 395, 334, 280 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spines, under tan, yellow and blue jackets, not price clipped. A fictionalised autobiography of Siegfried Sassoon, who depicts his life through the upper-middle class George Sherston as he grows up and loses his innocence in the First World War. All three volumes are in very good condition, with only very slight discolouration to edges of boards and minimal wear to jacket edges; internally clean and bright with slight yellowing to endpapers in volume 2 ('Infantry Officer'). Volume 3 ('Sherston's Progress') has ink owner's name on ffep., dated September 1936. An amazing set of independent first editions brought together. 8vo.

First editions, first impressions, retaining the dust jackets. This lightly fictionalized trilogy details the author's lonely youth, his idle years as a country gentleman, and his military service on the Western Front. The first instalment was readily considered a "classic of its kind - an elegy for a way of life which had gone for ever" (ODNB) and was awarded the Hawthornden and James Tait Black Memorial prizes. "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. At the author's request, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was initially published anonymously, though his identity was soon revealed following the work's immediate success. In response, Sassoon's name was added to the title page halfway through the printing of the second impression, and he was credited in the two works that followed. Keynes A30a, A33a, A40a. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches, 2003. Three works, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges dyed various colours. With dust jackets. Bookseller's ticket of Albert Dowling, Bristol, on front pastedown of Infantry Officer; publisher's mailing card loosely inserted in Sherston's Progress. Cloth a little faded in places, Sherston's Progress with cocked spine, others square, foxing and browning to edges and outer leaves, contents generally clean; jackets lightly soiled, a few closed tears and chips, sometime restored for Fox-Hunting Man and reinforced with tape on verso of Sherston's Progress, jackets unclipped: a very good set in like jackets.