Siegfried. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.

by SASSOON

£350 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

The first Sherston novel SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. London: Faber and Faber Ltd. 1929. 8vo. Publisher's cream cloth boards, printed in red and black, fore-edges untrimmed; pp. [viii], 9-295, [1], pictorial endpapers and devices by William Nicholson, along with an additional seven full-page illustrations; browning to free endpapers, boards very clean, very good. First illustrated edition, printed at the Chiswick Press. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was Sassoon's first foray into the world of prose, having previously concentrated solely on poetry. Sassoon was motivated to write the work after a war incident, when a fox was loose in the trenches and one of his friends shot and killed it. The book also draws heavily on his pre-war life, with riding and hunting being among the favourite pastimes of the author. The book won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. SKU: 2121760

• Binding: Hardcover

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