Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
by SASSOON, Siegfried
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About This Item
1929. SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Original pictorial cloth, non-priceclipped dustjacket. New York: Coward-McCann, [1929]. First American edition. Keynes A30d. Contains seven full-page drawings by William Nicholson. Although published in the USA, it was printed at the Chiswick Press, London. Jacket chipped, light foxing to endpapers and fore-edge, else a very good copy.
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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- Bookseller
- George S. MacManus Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63805
- Title
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- Author
- SASSOON, Siegfried
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- SPORTING, FOX HUNTING, LITX
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George S. MacManus Company
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Bryn Mawr,, Pennsylvania
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