Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.

SASSOON, Siegfried.

Item Number: 119433

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1929.

First illustrated edition of Sassoon’s Fox-hunting classic. Octavo, original japon vellum, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by William Nicholson. In near fine condition.

Sassoon's "lightly fictionalized autobiography of his early years in Kent, in which he figures as the narrator George Sherston, was an immediate success, was awarded the Hawthornden and James Tait Black memorial prizes, and was quickly accepted as a classic of its kind an elegy for a way of life which had gone for ever. He continued the story in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1937)" (ODNB).