Sassoon’s Long Journey.
£20.00
Publisher
A Giniger Book published in association with Faber and Faber,
Place
London
Synopsis
An illustrated selection from siegfried sassoon's the complete memoirs of george sherston. edited by paul fussell.
Item Description
4to. 10.25 x 7.25 inches. xx + 180 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has a little edge wear. A few small stains on front boards and rear flyleaves; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by black and white photographs, including frontispiece and facsimiles. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. The classic autobiographical trilogy of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) comprises Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930)and Sherston's Progress (1936). It is here selected and illustrated by a hundred photographs, edited by Paul Fussell (1924-2012), US academic and cultural historian, known for his work, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975).
[Stock No. 28774]
