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Price: US$19.84 + shipping
Description: Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Series; Collection of British and American authors ; vol. 4975. Physical description; 318 pages. Notes; Originally published: London : Faber, 1928. Not to be introduced into the British Empire or U.S.A. - cover. Subjects; Fox Hunting. Memoirs. Genre; Novel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$31.60 + shipping
Description: Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Series; Collection of British and American authors ; vol. 4975. Physical description; 318 pages. Notes; Originally published: London : Faber, 1928. Not to be introduced into the British Empire or U.S.A. - cover. Subjects; Fox Hunting. Memoirs. Genre; Novel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 310 pages. 1931 Faber hardcover 1st thus of the illustrated edition, with rough cut edges, illustrated boards and endpapers. No dj, light fraying on cover, corners bumped, separation on endpapers, owner's label on front pastedown, denting and soil on some pages, pages tanned, else text clean, binding still good .
Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1931.
Price: US$70.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First iIllustrated edition hardcover, in good condition. Full-page colour illustrations to front and rear pastedowns, with further illustrations, both colour and B&W, throughout the book. Previous owner's details penned to half-title page. There are signs of shelfwear and handling consistent with the age of the publication; corners are bumped, the spine is cocked and there is some discolouration, particularly to the spine and the rough-cut page block. Some foxing is present and small watermarks to the foot of several pages throughout. However, the text remains clear and legible, and the drawings are true to colour (where appropriate).CN
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 311pp. 1st illustrated edition, 1st printing. No dust jacket. Contains fifteen illustrations by Barnett Freedman, including frontis. All present. Light orange illustrated cloth covered boards with black lettering. Title plates on spine. Illustrated end papers. Crease to cloth at tip of top and tail of spine. Tiny damp stain to top edge of prelims. Single toning spot on lower margin from pp56/66. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Inscription on ffep Murray Royal Medical Library. No other library markings. Altogether in VG+ condition.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First illustrated edition, first impression. With 15 colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout by Barnett Freedman. Pictorial cloth, black titles, top edge speckled red, others untrimmed, illustrated endpapers. No dj. Condition: Very good. Top edge of cloth and pages darkened. Inscription to first blank. Internally bright and clean, binding firm. A couple of pages torn to opening edge due to careless cutting, only affecting outer margin. Size: 9x6in / 23x15cm. 311pp. Weight: 625g.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infrantry Officer. Faber & Faber, London, 1931.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover (no jacket, printed boards), first edition of the illustrated edition, very good condition. Boards are very clean with only minor bumps to the corners and spine ends. Spine is slightly cocked and the hinges are loose with small splits at the top but the binding is solid. Previous owner's signature penned on the FEP. Minor foxing to the page block and a few instances inside but the text and images remain bright and clear. DP
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Faber, 1931.
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Well-used edition of Sassoon s lightly fictionalized biography, replete with image plates. This illustrated edition was published following the first printing of 1939. This edition bears a bookplate for Malcolm John Morris , bearing the motto Spectemur Agendo Let Us Be Judged By Our Acts . Possibly the QC who served as public defender during the famous trial of Timothy Evans. Morris is also notable for having served as prosectur during the Jagger/Richards trial. While there is some shelf-wear and fading to the board cover, it remains tightly bound and in excellent condition, with an interesting and unusual provenance.
Seller: Burley Fisher Books, London, United Kingdom
Siegfried Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1931.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first illustrated edition of Sassoon's fictionalised account of the First World War. First illustrated edition of Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon in the original publisher's cloth binding.Lacking the dust wrapper.Beautifully illustrated throughout by Barnett Freedman with many in-text black and white illustrations and fifteen colour plates. Collated, complete.A novel by the English war poet, writer, and soldier, being a fictionalised account of his experiences during the First World War. Sassoon was one of the leading poets of the First World War. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. The spine is slightly faded. The rear hinge is starting but firm, and the front hinge is slightly strained. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Illustrated edition). London; Faber;, 1931.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. The illustrated edition, published in the year following the original edition. Illustrated by Barnett Freedman. Very good, bumped to the top corners. Lacks dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Faber & Faber 1931, London, 1931.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First illustrated edition. 311 pp. Original pictoral cloth. Minor rubbing to spine. Binding slightly slanted. Light shelf wear. Ink gift inscription dated 1941 to first blank. Internally clean and unmarked. Colour illustrated endpapers, very small tear to edge of front free endpaper. Uncut pages. With full-page colour and in-text black-and-white illustrations by Barnett Freedman. This is the classic fictionalised account of Sassoon's wartime experiences in and around WWI. This book has been described as a book to turn to by those who "really want to understand the atmosphere of the years 1916 and 1917, and the conditions of life". The second of Sassoon's autobiographical trilogy. Large 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
SASSOON Siegfried, FREEDMAN Barnett. MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER. Faber and Faber, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$230.99 + shipping
Description: Illustrated edn. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth (lightly bumped at head and tail of spine - otherwise bright VG), dustwrapper (vertical split at spine with partial loss and rubbed at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 310, illus with coloured pictorial endpapers, 15 coloured plates and b&w drawings in text by Barnett Freedman (pages bright and unmarked; no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs Of An Infantry Officer. Faber & Faber Limited, 1931.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [309] pp. SASSOON, Siegfried Faber & Faber Limited 1931 9" x 6.5" Illustrations by Barnett Freedman *rear hinge cracking*
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.312. With fifteen coloured plates, black & white illustrations within the text. In publisher's pictorial boards, colour-illustrated endpapers, top egde brown, others untrimmed. A near fine copy without jacket.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, 1931. First edition with illustrations by Barnett Freedman, full page colour and black and white illustrations. Uncut page edges. Page edges foxed. Coloured endpapers by Barnett Freedman. Publishers highly decorated with very light rubbing, else lovely clean copy. Very attractive book. 311 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Description: First illustrated edition, first impression, also the finest illustrated edition, with Barnett Freedman's splendid autolithographic colour plates. This "responsive medium [gave] full scope to his fluent graphic abilities, and he soon acquired an outstanding command of the technique. Encouraged by Harold Curwen, he developed a method of simulating lithography by drawing in chalk for line block reproduction" (Peppin & Micklethwait, p. 112). This semi-autobiographical novel was recognized as a classic of First World War fiction upon its original publication, in an unillustrated edition, the previous year. "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). The work is the second title in Sassoon's trilogy, which opened with Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928) and concluded with Sherston's Progress (1937) Keynes A33d. Brigid Peppin & Lucy Micklethwait, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators: The Twentieth Century, 1983; Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches, 2003. Octavo. Original illustrated red cloth lettered in black, colour pictorial endpapers, top edge sprinkled red, other edges uncut. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 14 similar plates, line drawings in the text. Publisher's mailing card loosely inserted. Bumps to edges, contents clean and lightly creased; jacket spine sunned, else bright, 2 cm chip to spine head, smaller chips and punctures elsewhere, with loss of text, old tape reinforcements on verso, unclipped: a very good copy in good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Description: First illustrated edition. Octavo. 312 pages. Covers, endpapers, 15 full-page colour illustrations and numerous black and drawings, mainly headpieces and tailpieces, by Barnett Freedman.On the first blank is this gift inscription: ''Jack Marriott with very best wishes - Guy Bolton. 8, Orchard Court, Portman Square''. Guy Bolton was a playwright who collaborated with P.G. Wodehouse on numerous musical shows. Jack Marriott had been a Royal Navy Captain. He represented Britain at the signing of the Armistice on 11 November 1918 and later attended the Paris Peace Conference.Near fine in defective but largely present dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Siegfried Sassoon. Memoirs of An Infantry Officer. Faber, UK, 1931.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1931. First Illustrated Edition. Drawings by Barnett Freedman. This is a beautiful book, with 15 coloured plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Book is very good++ with very bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is near very good and quite bright. Small loss to spine tips/corner. Light edge rubbing. More images can be taken upon request.Ref18263
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$468.39 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, monochrome vignettes on title and half-title, 15 coloured plates, numerous monochrome illustrations and decorations in the text and coloured pictorial endpapers, small neat signature on blank preliminary; coloured pictorial cloth, red sprinkled top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. Bright copy of the first illustrated edition, published a year after original publication. 3,500 copies were published on 17 September 1931 of which 780 were for sale in the US. The sheets of 300 copies were destroyed by enemy action in 1941. Keynes, A33d.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no. 243 of 320 copies signed by both Sassoon and Freedman, 8vo, 310, (2) pp. 15 colour plates plus black and white illustrations in the text, pictorial endpapers, later bookplate to fly leaf verso. Original pictorial parchment, t.e.g., small chip to the top of the lower joint, otherwise very good. Keynes A33e.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Faber & Faber limited 1931, London, 1931.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 311 pp. Signed limited edition. Original pictorial cloth with pictorial slipcase. Some wear to the edges of the slipcase, with splits to the head and tail joints. Some fading to the board and particularly the spine and minor marks. No bumping to the edges and binding firm. Small bookseller's sticker to the first blank endpaper and pencil note to the rear. Minor darkening to the front endpaper otherwise internally clean. Number 300 of a limited run of 320 and signed by both the author, Sassoon, and artist, Freedman. This volume was designed and illustrated by Barnett Freedman including colour pictorial endpapers and fifteen full-page colour and several in-text black and white illustrations. This book demonstrates Freedman's mastery of the new medium of auto-lithography and the book is "recognized as one of the most outstanding examples of twentieth-century book design" (ODNB). 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2155.89 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition thus, on English hand-made paper, with coloured frontispiece, monochrome vignettes on title and half-title, 15 coloured plates, numerous monochrome illustrations and decorations in the text and coloured pictorial endpapers; parchment over pictorial designs and lettering, gilt top, uncut, parchment lightly clouded and chipped (without material loss) at head and tail of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 320 COPIES (300 FOR SALE) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST (THIS COPY NO. 248). The publisher's dustwrapper and slip-case are not present with this copy. Keynes, A33e.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$3025.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, number 48 out of 320 copies signed by the Author and the Illustrator; 8vo; 15 colour plates by Barnett Freedman, fore-edges to four leaves crudely cut but not affecting text, otherwise fine; publisher's pictorial vellum, top edge gilt others untrimmed, pictorial dust-jacket, mild fading to spine and head slightly bumped, original slip-case, edges rubbed, especially on corners, otherwise an exceptionally good and clean copy. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), one of the major First World-War poets, was exceptionally courageous on several occasions and in consequence was decorated for his bravery. This novel is a fictionalised account of Sassoon's experiences during and immediately following the First World War; it was an instant success, eclipsing his earlier work, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, and remains a literary classic of the period.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
SASSOON (Siegfried). Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1931.
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated by Barnett Freedman with 15 coloured plates and numerous line drawings in the text. First illustrated edition. 8vo. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full brown morocco, the front cover with a partial border of a gilt fillet and gilt and black panels containing a composition of multi-coloured onlays with black and blind tooling, mirrored on the rear cover without the onlays, smooth spine lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves, and retaining the original Freedman illustrated endleaves, top edge gilt, the others uncut.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom