Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by SASSOON, Siegfried

Faber & Gwyer, 1928. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine blue boards, not faded at the spine as is commonly found, with bright gilt spine lettering; extremely clean pages, untrimmed to fore-edge and lower edge, not a hint of foxing; slight offset from the flaps on the first and last leaves; with the dropped 'o' from 'platoon' on page 365, and 'merey' for 'merely' in line 1 of page 191 (a misprint often overlooked). The cream dustjacket is in fine condition, with one minuscule nick on the top edge, no tears or chips elsewhere, is not price-clipped, and has no browning at all, which is very unusual for this title. Published anonymously at first, Sassoon's autobiographical novel of life in the English shires before the First World War, and then of joining up when war broke out, is one of the great classics of English literature, winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize, and this first trade printing is in remarkably nice condition.