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MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN
by SASSOON, Siegfried
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine, lacking the slipcase
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
[London]: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Fine, lacking the slipcase. Paul Hogarth. Octavo (7" x 9-7/8") bound in buckram stamped with designs and a spine of red cowhide leather stamped in gold; 300 pages. Designed by John Lewis and printed at the Curwen Press. Introduction by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrated by Paul Hogarth with 8 full-page color plates and 20 monochrome drawings. Copy #1228 of 1600 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
Synopsis
George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. A touching depiction of pre-First World War Britain, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is also a coming-of-age story which follows George from a shy and awkward childhood, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare...Written after Siegfried Sassoon's return from the First World War but looking back at happier times, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was published anonymously in 1928. Already established as a poet, this was Sassoon's first attempt at fiction - and Faber & Faber's first bestseller.
Reviews
On Feb 16 2017, a reader said:
First read it I my 20's and have read it every decade since. I am now 79.Says it all
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016155
- Title
- MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN
- Author
- SASSOON, Siegfried
- Illustrator
- Paul Hogarth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, lacking the slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- [London]
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Signed, Modern Firsts, LEC, Modern First Editions, Limited Editions Club, Illustrated Books, Curwen Press, Sports, Fox-Hunting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Curwen Press;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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