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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The 'George Sherston' trilogy complete]. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. [Illustrated by Lynton Lamb and John Lawrence]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The 'George Sherston' trilogy complete]. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. [Illustrated by Lynton Lamb and John Lawrence]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY

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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The 'George Sherston' trilogy complete]. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. [Illustrated by Lynton Lamb and John Lawrence]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY

by SASSOON Siegfried

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Folio Society,, 1971-74. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with three frontispieces and very numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, coloured tops and endpapers (green/brown/terracotta respectively), a near fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. Comprises 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1971), 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1974) and 'Sherston's Progress' (ill. John Lawrence; 1974). First editions of one of the most successful recent publications from the Folio Society. All three volumes have been several times re-issued individually and again as a 'boxed set' in 1993. Crisp set of Sassoon's 'fictitious' autobiography (first published 1928-30-36) in which his story is told by 'George Sherston'. The acclaimed trilogy was later published in a single volume as 'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston' (1937) and subsequently complemented by further volumes of autobiography in his own name.

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George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. A touching depiction of pre-First World War Britain, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is also a coming-of-age story which follows George from a shy and awkward childhood, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare...Written after Siegfried Sassoon's return from the First World War but looking back at happier times, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was published anonymously in 1928. Already established as a poet, this was Sassoon's first attempt at fiction - and Faber & Faber's first bestseller.

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On Feb 16 2017, a reader said:
First read it I my 20's and have read it every decade since. I am now 79.Says it all

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The 'George Sherston' trilogy complete]. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. [Illustrated by Lynton Lamb and John Lawrence]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY
Author
SASSOON Siegfried
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Folio Society,
Date Published
1971-74
Keywords
folio society, sassoon, siegfried sassoon, george sherston, great war, ww1, wwi, lynton lamb
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