The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. Being Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress -
Siegfried Sassoon
1937 - Faber and Faber, London - First Collected Edition
A finely bound copy of Sassoon’s trilogy of autobiographical Great War memoirs. A trilogy that charted both the destruction of the world for which Sassoon fought, and his own emergence as one of Britain's finest war poets.
Sassoon became a symbolic figure of dissent within the armed forces, when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917. He was subsequently admitted to a military psychiatric hospital, where he made firm friends with Wilfred Owen. Sassoon later won great acclaim for his prose - notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy", and published here for the first time in one book. Octavo (binding size 19.7x13.4cm), pp. [4] 804 [2] Elegantly bound in three-quarter deep red calf over matching cloth, spine with raised bands and twin black morocco labels lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt. Condition: Fien but for a hint of spotting to fore-edge, in fine binding. Ref: 110506 Price: HK$ 2,500
Sassoon became a symbolic figure of dissent within the armed forces, when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917. He was subsequently admitted to a military psychiatric hospital, where he made firm friends with Wilfred Owen. Sassoon later won great acclaim for his prose - notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy", and published here for the first time in one book. Octavo (binding size 19.7x13.4cm), pp. [4] 804 [2] Elegantly bound in three-quarter deep red calf over matching cloth, spine with raised bands and twin black morocco labels lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt. Condition: Fien but for a hint of spotting to fore-edge, in fine binding. Ref: 110506 Price: HK$ 2,500