The Old Century and Seven More Years. by Siegfried Sassoon - 1938.

London, UK Faber & Faber , 1938. Hardcover First Edition, so stated. First Edition, so stated. Very Good in Good only DJ: Book shows indications of careful use; light wear to extremities; the spine leans a little; there are tiny splits at the bottom of both the front and rear hinges; else flawless. Binding remains quite secure; text clean. DJ shows heavy wear: chip loss at the head and heel of the backstrip and at the front corner tips; a three-inch mostly closed tear from the top of the front hinge down toward the middle of the front panel; some darkening and mottling to the backstrip; the price has not been clipped; mylar-protected. Structurally sound and tightly bound, this volume is clean, sturdy, and quite presentable in a rather tatty DJ. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 293pp. Hardback with DJ. Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 – 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a mental hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy", in which he branched out into prose, with Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the anonymously-published first volume of a fictionalised autobiography, which was almost immediately accepted as a classic, bringing its author new fame as a humorous writer. The book won the 1928 James Tait Black Award for fiction. Sassoon followed it with Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936). In later years, he revisited his youth and early manhood with three volumes of genuine autobiography, which were also widely acclaimed. These were the volume offered here, The Old Century, and The Weald of Youth and Siegfried's Journey.