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395p,334p,280p octavo, A very good set in very good dust jackets Volume 2 having been aggressively price clipped. Volume 1 nicked on the spine of the jacket, and darkened . The first volume has the "A" on the preliminary leaf indicating 'second issue'

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.

FIRST EDITIONS. 1st printings. Three volumes. 8vo. (7.5 X 5 Inches). Bright and clean copies throughout in fine recent leather bindings of full dark blue morocco, the spines with five raised bands, compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single ruled gilt border on boards. All edges gilt. Sassoon's masterpiece of autobiographical fiction. One of the great literary works of the twentieth century. ---The first volume was published anonymously in an edition of just 1500 copies and is scarce. A limited edition, signed by Sassoon, was published later in 1928 and matching limited and signed volumes were issued alongside the publication of the two other volumes.

FIRST EDITIONS. 1st printings. Three volumes. 8vo.(7.5 X 5 Inches). Bright and clean copies throughout in fine recent leather bindings of full dark blue morocco, the spines with five raised bands, compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single ruled gilt border on boards. All edges gilt. Sassoon's masterpiece of autobiographical fiction. One of the great literary works of the twentieth century. --- The first volume was published anonymously in an edition of just 1500 copies and is scarce. A limited edition, signed by Sassoon, was published later in 1928 and matching limited and signed volumes were issued alongside the publication of the two other volumes.

FIRST PRINTINGS OF ALL THREE VOLUMES OF ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS OF WORLD WAR ONE LITERATURE. The first volume is by Faber & Gwyer with the second two bearing the imprint of Faber and Faber after the firm name changed. All three volumes in fine condition with dustjackets in near fine condition. The jackets show traces of shelf wear and the spine of Infantry Officer is slightly rubbed; jackets otherwsie clean and intact with original prices. A much nicer set than normally found, particularly the scarce first volume. Sassoon's trilogy of autobiographical novels is not only a masterpiece of Great War Literature but also considered to be one of the finest works of 20th century English literature.

3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, free endpapers lightly browned as often; original blue buckram, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips lightly sunned (but all gilt wholly bright and legible), a very good, bright, clean set. EDITIONS LIMITED TO 260/750/300 NUMBERED COPIES RESPECTIVELY, ALL SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THESE COPIES NOS. 181, 201, 242 RESPECTIVELY). Sassoon's classic fictional autobiographical trilogy comprises: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes, A30b, A33b, A40b respectively.

Signed limited editions, each signed and numbered by the author, numbers 3 of 260, 592 of 750, and 12 of 300 copies respectively. 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). The signed limited editions of Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress were published simultaneously with the first trade editions; Fox-Hunting Man was issued one month after the trade edition and "was an afterthought, made when the success of the ordinary edition was assured and the identity of the author known" (Keynes). Keynes A30b, A33b, A40b. 3 vols, octavo. Original blue buckram, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Light bumping, rubbing, and sunning, slight browning to endpapers, various leaves unopened: a very good, internally fresh set.