SASSOON, Siegfried. (1886-1967). Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London, 1929, large 8vo, 7 plates by William Nicholson, original buckram, dust-jacket, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. With 3 other related books. (4)

SASSOON, Siegfried. (1886-1967). Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London, 1929, large 8vo, 7 plates by William Nicholson, original buckram, dust-jacket, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. With 3 other related books. (4)

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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967).  Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. London: Faber & Faber, 1929. Large 8vo (224 x 150mm). Half title, 7 plates by William Nicholson, illustrations (some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Original cream pictorial buckram, pictorial endpapers (light stained, corners bumped, light rectangular stains to the endpapers), dust-jacket by William Nicholson with price of 21s. unclipped (small pieces torn away from the head of the backstrip, some light fraying and rubbing at the edges). FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Please note that the original dust-jacket has been photographed in its modern protective archival Mylar wrapper, thereby avoiding any risk of damage through its temporary removal. With 3 other related books, namely the same author's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (London, 1931, large 8vo, 15 coloured plates by Barnett Freedman, illustrations, original coloured pictorial boards, without the dust-jacket, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION), the same author's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (London, 1930, 8vo, original blue cloth, with uncut outer edges, dust-jacket, FIRST TRADE EDITION) and with Robert Graves' Good-Bye to all That (London, 1929, 8vo, erratum slip at p.399, original cloth, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, second issue without Sassoon's poem at pp.341-343). (4)