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Lot 66
Sale 6426 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 13, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$600 -
800
Lot Description
SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). [Sherston trilogy]. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. 1928. -- Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. 1930. -- Sherston's Progress. 1936. London: Faber & Gwyer; Faber & Faber.
3 volumes, 8vo. Original blue cloth; dust jackets (very light chipping to spine ends of first two volumes).
FIRST TRADE EDITIONS of one of the great works of 20th-century war literature, the first instalment considered a "classic of its kind - an elegy for a way of life which had gone for ever" (ODNB). It was awarded the Hawthornden and James Tait Black Memorial prizes. Keynes A30a, A33a, A40a.
[With:] SASSOON. The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. London: Faber and Faber, 1937. Original blue cloth; dust jacket (spine toned). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of the three works above.
This lot is located in Chicago.