first quarter of 1916 for his Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man . This was published in 1928, anonymously, though his name appeared in the second impression. This lightly fictionalized autobiography of his early years in Kent, in which he figures as the narrator George Sherston, was an immediate success, 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 for ever. He continued the story in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston’s Progress (1936)” ( ODNB ).
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered and tooled in gilt on black ground, Sassoon’s monogram to front cover in black, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. Waterstain to front cover, extremities rubbed, browning to endpapers, light toning and foxing to margins, else clean. A very good copy, in like dust jacket, toned but still bright, a few marks, extremities slightly chipped and rubbed, short closed tear to head of front panel, not price-clipped. ¶ Keynes A41b. £1,250 [150534] 171 SASSOON, Siegfried. The Path to Peace [with a manuscript copy of “Unfoldment” in Sassoon’s hand]. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960 DENNIS SILK’S COPY, WITH A MANUSCRIPT POEM LAID-IN First edition, number 67 of 480 copies on handmade paper, with the bookplate of the poet’s friend the cricketer Dennis Silk to the front pastedown, and containing a manuscript copy of the poem “Unfoldment” laid in, in Sassoon’s hand and signed with his monogram. As well as the usual Stanbrook Abbey Press printing of “Awaitment”, this copy also has similar printings, seldom seen, of “A Prayer in Old Age” and “Proven Purpose”. Also included in this copy is a contemporary newspaper review of the collection, to which Sassoon has added the marginal note “Sundays”.
Quarto. Original quarter vellum over paper covered boards, With original glassine jacket. Manuscript copy of “Unfoldment” and offprints of three additional poems, “Awaitment”, “A Prayer In Old Age”, and “Proven Purpose”, each a single leaf of handmade paper printed on one side in Cancelleresca Bastarda; the first with an initial rubricated in green. The Path to Peace finely set in Romulus Cancelleresca Bastarda, and printed in blue and black, rubricated initials alternately red and gold. A near-fine copy, tiny nicks to fore- corners and minimal chips to glassine. £1,250 [152824]
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