SASSOON Siegfried - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The 'George Sherston' trilogy complete]. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. [Illustrated by Lynton Lamb and John Lawrence]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY

Folio Society,, 1971-74. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with three frontispieces and very numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, coloured tops and endpapers (green/brown/terracotta respectively), one case split at top edge else a near fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. Comprises 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1971), 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1974) and 'Sherston's Progress' (ill. John Lawrence; 1974). First editions of one of the most successful recent publications from the Folio Society. All three volumes have been several times re-issued individually and again as a 'boxed set' in 1993. Crisp set of Sassoon's 'fictitious' autobiography (first published 1928-30-36) in which his story is told by 'George Sherston'. The acclaimed trilogy was later published in a single volume as 'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston' (1937) and subsequently complemented by further volumes of autobiography in his own name. COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE SCARCE.

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