SASSOON, Siegfried.

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The Sherston trilogy: Signed limited editions, each signed and numbered by the author, numbers 3 of 260, 592 of 750, and 12 of 300 copies respectively. The Sherston trilogy is Sassoon's lightly fictionalized autobiography, detailing his lonely youth, his idle years as a country gentleman, and his military service on the Western Front. Immediately successful, the work "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 forever" (ODNB). The signed limited editions of Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress were published simultaneously with the first trade editions; Fox-Hunting Man was issued one month after the trade edition and "was an afterthought, made when the success of the ordinary edition was assured and the identity of the author known" (Keynes).

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