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Siegfried Sassoon. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer Limited, UK, 1928.
Price: US$6.37 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair condition hard cover, no dust jacket, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.
Seller: RIVERLEE BOOKS, Waltham Cross, HERTS, United Kingdom
SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs of a fox-hunting man. Faber & Gwyer Limited; London., 1928.
Price: US$10.19 + shipping
Description: 2nd impression, 1928. Gift inscription (dated Dec. 1928) on front free endpaper, with owner's name on front pastedown. Light foxing on endpapers. Binding tight. Blue cloth faded on spine and bit around board edges. Gilt lettering on spine. Small repaired split in lower rear joint. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967). Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$18.44 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Third impression. Autobiography of arguable the worlds greatest war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Mudies lending library copy. A very good reading copy only.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man. Faber and Faber, London, 1928.
Price: US$24.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original cloth covers, spine rubbed and sunned, some browning to the edges, previous owners name and blind stamp, the fifth impression Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom
Siegfried Sassoon. MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 395 pgs. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Condition of the book is GOOD+ ; edges of front and back covers faded, spine faded. Corners slightly worn, bumped. Spine slightly cocked. Two pgs browned where newsprint was placed. Otherwise a very tight, clean copy.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man. London: Faber & Gwyer, (1928), 1928.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Second issue of the first edition. with "A" to second front endpaper. 8vo; 395 pp. Wear to top of spine; uneven fading to blue cloth; else a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped cloth.
Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. 1928. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928.
Price: US$45.48 + shipping
Description: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 395pp. September 1928. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover soiled and heavily discoloured
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man. Faber and Faber, 1928.
Price: US$54.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1928. Faber and Faber. Hardcover. GOOD DJ good. chipped at spine. DJ edgewear. previous owner inscription. 7x4
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
[SASSOON, Siegfried]. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition, second issue. Bookplate of Charles C. Auchincloss, owner's name inked on front pastedown, light foxing on endpapers, spine sunned, very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
SASSOON, Siegfried.. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.. Faber & Gwyer Limited,, London:, 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Third impression. Publisher's postcard laid in. Foxing on endpapers, else good in a fair (edge worn with several chips, age darkened along the spine: the fragile dust jacket is complete but detached along the front spine edge and front flap fold) dust jacket.; 395 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.81 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine cover sun-toned. Some scuffs and dust-toning to boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Light foxing to endpapers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 395 pages; 395p. 19cm. Subjects: Fox hunting. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine cover sun-toned. Some scuffs and dust-toning to boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Light foxing to endpapers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 395 pages; 395p. 19cm. Subjects: Fox hunting. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Description: First edition. The first volume of the Sherston trilogy. The so-called second issue with the "A" on the blank preceding the half-title. Geoffrey Keynes, Sassoon's bibliographer, states that these "typographical irregularities have no significance whatever, since they were both printed and published at the same time". Octavo. 395 pages. ''Merey'' for ''merely'' in first line of page 191; dropped ''o'' and ''r' from penultimate and last line of page 365 respectively.From the library of Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown.Some spotting to endpapers. Covers faded at spine and edges. Small snag to head of spine. Very good. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$573.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardback, large 8vo, 395pp, signed by the author on limitation page, edges and endpapers browned, slight tobacco odour, spots of foxing on prelims, otherwise sound, blue cloth, rubbed, spine browned, Good condition / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
(Sassoon, Siegfried). MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN.. Faber & Gwyer Ltd.: London, 1928.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: 7.5 x 5, blue cloth, 395 pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped, spine and edges faded, hinges loose, gutter at front darkened, toned overall, in edge-torn, spine darkened, spotted, soiled and stained dust jacket. FIRST ED, early issue ("A" on front blank, no author's name, "plato n " on p365, "7/6" price on dust jacket), untrimmed foredge and bottom edge.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Siegfried Sassoon. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$637.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue, 1928, 395 pages, very good condition in publisher's cloth binding, spine slightly browned and faded, top edge of book dust marked, neat ink ownership inscription on front end-paper dated 3/10/28, no dust wrapper, book mow protected by a slightly worn clare paper cover.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
SASSOON] [Siegfried. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. IN FULL MOROCCO. Faber & Gwyer, [1928], 1928.
Price: US$705.82 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; handsomely bound in navy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sassoon's first published work in prose and a classic of the genre. The author's name was not printed until the second issue of the second impression. This is the so-called 'second issue' with 'A' on blank leaf preceding half-title, though Keynes states that these 'typographical irregularities have no significance whatever, since they were both printed and published at the same time'. Keynes A30a.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
[SASSOON, Siegfried]. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.. Faber and Gwyer, London, 1928.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 395 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition, first issue. Small label to rear pastedown; bookplate to front pastedown; a few light tape stains to endsheets; else very good in a jacket with internal tape repairs to several closed tears and a chip at the top of the spine which has been re-attached with tape. A decent copy of a book that is very uncommon in dust jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Siegfried Sassoon. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber and Gwyer Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$789.91 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blue cloth hard cover with gilt titles on spine, and no cover wear. Clean interior with 395 pages. Dust jacket is in very good condition with only very minor edge wear and some slight soiling. First edition 1st impression/printing with 'A' on first blank page, error on page 365 (plato n rather than platoon) and Sassoon's name not on dust jacket or title page. Published in 1928 this book is in very good to fine condition with very good dust jacket.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$856.16 + shipping
Description: 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 395pp. Printed on hand-made paper, and limited to 260 copies. Signed at limitation page. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover marked and faded. Previous owner inscription at pastedown. Browning at eps and edges. Untrimmed
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
(Sassoon, Siegfried). MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 395 pages. Limited edition of 260 SIGNED copies of which this is number 248. Spine and edges of covers darkened; corners bumped and edges lightly worn. Internally, very clean and tight. Very good. (002) It won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, being immediately recognized as a classic of English literature.
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$930.05 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, some light offsetting to blank preliminaries only; original blue cloth, gilt back, yellow top, uncut, backstrip very lightly faded (but all gilt entirely legible) else a remarkably bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at backstrip. Sassoon's first published work in prose and a classic of the genre. The author's name was not printed until the second issue of the second impression. This is the so-called 'second issue' with 'A' on blank leaf preceding half-title, though Keynes states that these 'typographical irregularities have no significance whatever, since they were both printed and published at the same time'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes A30a.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Siegfried Sassoon. MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. London: Faber and Gwyer Ltd., 1928.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. 395 pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. A limited, signed edition on hand-made paper of 260, of which this is number 202. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD+ ; just the merest hint of shelf wear, covers extraordinarily clean and unblemished. Spine is sunned. Binding is tight and hinges have no play whatsover. The text is bright, clean and unmarked, with just a hint of foxing to the endpapers. Included is a 4 1/2 x 7 inch loose page of hand-laid paper with ink sketches of WWI officers, which was in this book when we bought it. I can't prove that they are by Sassoon, but they bear a striking similarity to a few others I researched online, notably sketches on letters from the front, circa 1917. See photograph provided and decide for yourself. A lovely copy of this rare and cherished book, with a likely terrific bonus in the sketch. Sport/Memoir. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
SASSOON (Siegfried).. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$1012.86 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. 8vo. [183 x 127 x 26 mm]. 395, [1] pp. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere (signed in gilt on front turn-in) in red morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border. The spine divided into six panels with gilt tooled raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third and dated at the foot, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, the turn-ins with gilt fillets and a fleuron, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Siegfried Sassoon. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$1019.23 + shipping
Description: An uncommon copy of Sassoon's classic tale, with a particularly intriguing blurb 'This is fiction, but with a difference for the author, who wishes at present to remain anonymous, has lived himself the life of his hero.' First edition first issue the first true print of the book. Features an attractive original cream dust jacket with cobalt blue text, protected by removable clear plastic overlay. Jacket is price clipped shows discolouration commensurate with age, and shelf wear to extremities. Underneath the jacket lie blue cloth boards. Said boards and spine are faded in parts commensurate with age. Text block itself is in lovely condition and, aside from darkening to top edge and extremely subtle foxing near unnoticeable to front free endpaper, pages are free of any forms of marking. Text is very bright and clear throughout. Overall, and rare and desirable edition of Sassoon's prose work, with touches that make for a scarce copy.
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber and Gwyer Ltd, London, 1928.
Price: US$1082.94 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Faber and Gwyer Ltd, London, 1928 First Limited Edition. Octavo. Finely rebound in full black morocco with a lovely patina, lettering in gold to spine, and new endpapers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Slight foxing to front edge, else a fine copy. Limited to 260 numbered copies, of which this is number 19. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Keynes, in his standard bibliography of the author, states this edition was an afterthought, made when the success of the ordinary (first) edition was assured and the identity of the author known. Keynes A30b
Seller: Watersmead Books, Great Torrington, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 395p,334p,280p octavo, A very good set in very good dust jackets Volume 2 having been aggressively price clipped. Volume 1 nicked on the spine of the jacket, and darkened . The first volume has the "A" on the preliminary leaf indicating 'second issue'
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original blue cloth, dust jackets. A fine copy in dust jacket, which is lightly chipped along the top edge. A fine copy in dust jacket, which is lightly chipped along the top edge First trade edition of the first volume in Sassoon's celebrated World War I trilogy, in the "bibliographically preferred" first state with untrimmed edges. Keynes A30a.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1274.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Editions of each volume; 395, 334, 280 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spines, under tan, yellow and blue jackets, not price clipped. A fictionalised autobiography of Siegfried Sassoon, who depicts his life through the upper-middle class George Sherston as he grows up and loses his innocence in the First World War. All three volumes are in very good condition, with only very slight discolouration to edges of boards and minimal wear to jacket edges; internally clean and bright with slight yellowing to endpapers in volume 2 ('Infantry Officer'). Volume 3 ('Sherston's Progress') has ink owner's name on ffep., dated September 1936. An amazing set of independent first editions brought together. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1324.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An uncommonly handsome set of Sassoon's celebrated World War I trilogy, one of the great classics of English literature (Fox-Hunting Man was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize). First Impressions of the three separately published volumes. Crown 8vo (186 x 122mm): 395,[1]; 334,[2]; 280pp. Uniformly bound in publisher's French blue cloth, spines lettered in gold, top edges stained, respectively, saffron, pink, and reddish brown; plain paper dust jackets, all priced 7/6, cream printed in blue (Fox-Hunting Man), pale yellow printed in black (Infantry Officer), and French blue printed in black and red. Fox-Hunting Man: Published anonymously, in an edition of only 1500 copies. Misprint on line 1 of p. 191 ('merey' for 'merely'), but 'platoon' spelled correctly on penultimate line of p. 365. (According to Keynes, the "typographical irregularities have no significance whatever.") End sheeted spotted and offset, spine a touch embrowned, skillfully closed short triangular tear to front panel, else an excellent example, Near Fine or better. Infantry Officer: A superb copy, binding square and tight (lightly read, if at all), contents clean throughout, jacket lightly rubbed to top of spine panel. Sherston's Progress: Another superlative copy, the jacket especially so; certainly unread. Bibliotheca Bibliographici 3701, 3709, 3754. Keynes A30, A33, A40. Falls, pp. 295, 306-07. In the late 1920s, Sassoon turned to the prose sequence that occupied him for nearly two decades, the trilogy published as The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, in 1937, in which the central character is a lightly fictionalized version of the young author. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Siegfried Sassoon. The Sherston Trilogy. Faber and Faber, 1928.
Price: US$1592.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SASSOON, Siegfried. Sherston trilogy. London: Faber & Gwyer/Faber & Faber. 1928-1936. First editions. Sassoons critically acclaimed fictionalised autobiographical trilogy. The first volume won the Hawthornden and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The set here all signed limited editions (of 260, 750, and 300 copies respectively) and printed on handmade paper. The first volume from the library of Jean Hersholt, the Danish-American radio and silent film star, with his bookplate and signature to the front pastedown. Some mottling to the boards and the spines gently sunned as is often the case, but internally about fine throughout. An excellent set. More photos available on request.
Seller: Deep Neutral Books, York, ENGLA, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried. MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$1651.95 + shipping
Description: Pp. 396(last colophon), med. 8vo; blue buckram, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, the spine quite faded; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; the free endpapers offset, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1928. Second edition, being one of 260 numbered copies on English hand-made paper, signed by the author. Keynes A30b. *From the collection of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on verso of the upper free endpaper. Previously from the library of British politician and diplomat Duff Cooper whose large bookplate (designed by Rex Whistler, incorporating a bust of Cooper's wife, Lady Diana, as Artemis) is on the upper pastedown. According to Keynes, 'This special printing was an afterthought, made when the success of the ordinary edition was assured and the identity of the author known'. The book was originally published anonymously, in September 1928, with the authors' name added part-way through the printing of the second impression (after first 500 copies).
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$1719.96 + shipping
Description: First editions, first impressions, retaining the dust jackets. This lightly fictionalized trilogy details the author's lonely youth, his idle years as a country gentleman, and his military service on the Western Front. The first instalment was readily considered a "classic of its kind - an elegy for a way of life which had gone for ever" (ODNB) and was awarded the Hawthornden and James Tait Black Memorial prizes. "Like Tolstoy's War and Peace, which he was also reading while he wrote his own book, it is the combination of factual detail and direct personal experience vividly rendered that makes Infantry Officer a convincing and compelling picture of war. As he told Ottoline [Morrell], he wanted to give 'a really truthful inner-narrative'. He believed that this had not yet been achieved by an English writer, apart from Blunden" (Wilson, p. 238). Sassoon considered the final instalment, Sherston's Progress, his best. It describes his recovery and return to the war after being treated by Dr W. H. R. Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital. At the author's request, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was initially published anonymously, though his identity was soon revealed following the work's immediate success. In response, Sassoon's name was added to the title page halfway through the printing of the second impression, and he was credited in the two works that followed. Keynes A30a, A33a & A40a. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches, 2003. 3 works, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges dyed various colours. With dust jackets. Bookseller's ticket of Albert Dowling, Bristol, on front pastedown of Infantry Officer; publisher's mailing card loosely inserted in Sherston's Progress. Cloth a little faded in places, Sherston's Progress with cocked spine, others square, foxing and browning to edges and outer leaves, contents generally clean; jackets lightly soiled, a few closed tears and chips, sometime restored for Fox-Hunting Man and reinforced with tape on verso of Sherston's Progress, jackets unclipped: a very good set in like jackets.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1732.70 + shipping
Description: 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; handsomely bound in uniform burgundy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, a most attractive set ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant set of first editions of Sassoon's 'fictitious' autobiography in which his story is told by 'George Sherston'.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$1783.66 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes. 8vo.(7.5 X 5 Inches). Bright and clean copies throughout in fine recent leather bindings of full dark blue morocco, the spines with five raised bands, compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single ruled gilt border on boards. All edges gilt. Sassoon's masterpiece of autobiographical fiction. One of the great literary works of the twentieth century. --- The first volume was published anonymously in an edition of just 1500 copies and is scarce. A limited edition, signed by Sassoon, was published later in 1928 and matching limited and signed volumes were issued alongside the publication of the two other volumes.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1796.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3 volumes. 8vo. Bound in blue buckram with gilt spine lettering. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, volume 2 mostly unopened. Volume 2 and 3 spines sunned, volume 1 spine with heavier fading. Light browning to the endpapers of vols. 1 and 3. Ink name to endpaper in volume 3. Limited edition set, each book numbered and signed by Siegfried Sassoon. Limitation runs 231/260; 386/750; 158/300.A very good set.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$2484.38 + shipping
Description: First editions. Three volumes. Royal octavo. pp 395; 334; 280. Blue buckram covers, top edges gilt. The first volume is partially unopened.Limited editions, each being numbered and signed by the author and printed on handmade paper. The first volume is one of 260 copies, the second one of 750 copies and the third one of 300 copies.The endpapers of the first and third volumes are tanned. Fading to the covers, mainly at the spine, of the first two volumes. A very good set.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, dust jackets. Some foxmarks on edges of text block of two volumes, signature on rear pastedown of Memoirs of An Infantry Officer (nick in the top of the spine panel of the dust jacket), but a fine set of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical memoirs. Some foxmarks on edges of text block of two volumes, signature on rear pastedown of Memoirs of An Infantry Officer (nick in the top of the spine panel of the dust jacket), but a fine set of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical memoirs First trade editions of each of the three volumes in Sassoon's celebrated World War I trilogy, the first volume in the "bibliographically preferred" first state with untrimmed edges. Keynes A30a, A33a, A40a.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928.
Price: US$2620.18 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo. Decorated vellum in a dust jacket that is faded on the spine. Limited to 300 copies of which this is #45. Signed by Sassoon and Nicholson. Vellum is slightly bowed. An almost fine copy of a very attractive book that is difficult to find in its original dj.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$2853.85 + shipping
Description: 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, free endpapers lightly browned as often; original blue buckram, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips lightly sunned (but all gilt wholly bright and legible), a very good, bright, clean set. EDITIONS LIMITED TO 260/750/300 NUMBERED COPIES RESPECTIVELY, ALL SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THESE COPIES NOS. 181, 201, 242 RESPECTIVELY). Sassoon's classic fictional autobiographical trilogy comprises: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes, A30b, A33b, A40b respectively.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First illustrated edition, signed limited issue. Copy #58 of a limited 300, signed by Siegfried Sassoon and illustrator William Nicholson. Bound in publisher's decorated vellum, in publisher's glassine and dust jacket. Light bowing to boards, light dust-soiling to top edge, else Fine. In Near Fine acetate with creasing to one flap and browning. In a Fine dust jacket with faint edge wear. A stunning copy. First illustrated edition, signed limited issue.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1928.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SASSOON, Siegfried [395] pp. Faber & Gwyer Limited 1928 Seventh Impression December 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" Amazing association copy signed twice by Rex Whistler, his personal copy! Rex Whistler (1905-1944) then proceeded to study at the Slade School of Art, where he met Stephen Tennant, soon to become one of his best friends and a model for some of the figures in his works. Through Tennant, he later met the poet Siegfried Sassoon and his wife Hester, to both of whom Whistler became close. Rex Whistler & Siegfried Sassoon by Cecil Beaton c.1928 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is Sassoon's semi-autobiographical account of his early years in Kent and the beginning of the First World War. In it Sassoon drew on his pre-War diaries but published the book anonymously and used a stand-in narrator called George Sherston. Published in 1928, it summoned up a lost way of life.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.