SASSOON, Siegfried.

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.

Stock Code

105674

London, Faber & Faber Limited, 1929

£2,500

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is Sassoon's lightly fictionalised account of his early years in Kent. It quickly became a literary success, winning the Hawthornden and James Tait Black memorial prizes.

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First illustrated edition, signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page, number 13 of 300 numbered copies on English handmade paper; 8vo (231 x 160 mm); 7 lithographed plates, vignette half-title and title-page, head- and tail-pieces, all by William Nicholson, light spotting at extremities; original vellum binding, top edge gilt, others uncut, dust-jacket and scarce glassine wrapper, binding a bit bowed, dust-jacket lightly spotted at extremities with one small nick to upper panel, glassine wrapper creased with some tearing, very good condition overall.