The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston.
by SASSOON, SIEGFRIED
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Faber and faber, first collected edition, 1937.. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 804pages. Salmon pink cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, which has a faint teardrop stain just below the title. 20 x 14 cm. Small neat name on fep. Slightly frayed and marked dj, with top 2cm of spine missing and 1cm strip of clear tape at foot of spine. Endpapers and edges a little spotted, overall a good clean copy of an edition scarce in dustjacket. First publication of Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress in one volume.
Synopsis
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1928. It won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, being immediately recognised as a classic of English literature. In the years since its first appearance, it has regularly been a set text for British schoolchildren.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gordon Hughes (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2260
- Title
- The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston.
- Author
- SASSOON, SIEGFRIED
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and faber, first collected edition, 1937.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- literature war poets
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Gordon Hughes
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shellharbour, New South Wales
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