Lot 117
  • 117

Sassoon, Siegfried and Edward Thomas.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Four works:
Sassoon, S. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer, 1929, first edition, no. 225 of 260 copies on hand-made paper signed by the author, original blue buckram, top edge gilt, other edges uncut; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Faber & Faber, 1930, no. 373 of 750 copies on hand-made paper signed by the author, original blue buckram, top edge gilt, other edges uncut;  Sherston's Progress. Faber and Faber, 1936, first edition, no. 176 of 300 copies on hand-made paper, original blue buckram, top edge gilt, other edges uncut--Thomas, E. Collected Poems. Selwyn and Blount, 1920, photographic frontispiece, original blue cloth, white label printed in black on spine; some slight sunning to spines of first two volumes (4)



The first three volumes are the deluxe issues of Sassoon's George Sherston trilogy.

Literature

Keynes A30b; A33b, A40b

Condition

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