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Sherston's Progress
by Sassoon, Siegfried
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. First Edition, First Impression. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of Sherston's Progress by Siegried Sassoon.. Octavo, 280pp. Full blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First published in September Mcmxxxvi" on copyright page. Solid text block, light wear to corners, sunned spine, faint toning to endpapers. Publisher's advertising slip laid in at front. In the publisher's dust jacket, 7s. 6d. retail price on front flap. Sunning to spine, faint dampstain to top corner. This is the final volume in Sassoon's trilogy of fictional autobiographies from the point of view of George Sherston, a World War I veteran.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15067
- Title
- Sherston's Progress
- Author
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Illustrator
- First edition of Sherston's Progress by Siegried Sassoon.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Impression
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- depictions of war Sassoon, World War I Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Sassoon, Memoirs of A Fox Hunting Man Sassoon, Memoirs of a Cavalier Sassoon, Sheratons Progress George Sherston, George Sherston WWI, Signed book Siegfried Sassoon
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Sunned
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- Gilt
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