Sherston's Progress. [First English (Limited) Edition.] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION: 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED
by SASSOON Siegfried
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber & Faber,, [1936]. 8vo., First Edition thus, Large Paper, on hand-made laid paper, free endpapers mildly browned as often; original blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned (but all gilt bright and clear), a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 127). This splendid edition of the final volume of the 'Sherston' trilogy is considerably scarcer than the signed edition of 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' of which 750 copies were printed. Keynes, A40b.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46491
- Title
- Sherston's Progress. [First English (Limited) Edition.] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION: 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED
- Author
- SASSOON Siegfried
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber,
- Date Published
- [1936]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, sassoon, siegfried sasson, george sherston, ww1, wwi, great war, war poets, war poetry
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