signed first edition
1936
by Sassoon, Siegfried
1936. London: Faber and Faber, 1936.
8vo, 280pp. Original blue buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt, slightly browned, covers with faint marks of handling
§ First edition, limited to 300 copies signed by Sassoon The third volume of his chef d'oeuvre, preceded by "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man" and "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer". Generally regarded as one of a very few literary masterpieces about the Great War (World War I) by an officer who served nobly while protesting the war publicly and also helping identify "shell shock" as a valid serious medical condition while deploring the horrendous medical measures used to return those solders to the war. (Inventory #: 126166)
8vo, 280pp. Original blue buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt, slightly browned, covers with faint marks of handling
§ First edition, limited to 300 copies signed by Sassoon The third volume of his chef d'oeuvre, preceded by "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man" and "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer". Generally regarded as one of a very few literary masterpieces about the Great War (World War I) by an officer who served nobly while protesting the war publicly and also helping identify "shell shock" as a valid serious medical condition while deploring the horrendous medical measures used to return those solders to the war. (Inventory #: 126166)
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