Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The Sherston trilogy complete.] COMPLETE SIGNED, LIMITED SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY
by SASSOON] [Siegfried
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber,, 1928-1930-1936. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43396
- Title
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The Sherston trilogy complete.] COMPLETE SIGNED, LIMITED SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY
- Author
- SASSOON] [Siegfried
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber,
- Date Published
- 1928-1930-1936
- Keywords
- modern first editions, signed, modern firsts, ww1, wwi, great war, war poets, war poetry, sassoon, siegfried sassoon, sherston, george sherston
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