Title: The Old Huntsman and other poems

Author: Siegfried Sassoon

Publisher: William Heinemann, London

Edition: First Printing, First Edition 

Date Printed: 1917

Description:  A very nice example of the scarce first printing of the first edition, in its rare original dustwrapper. 109 pages.  Errata slip to contents page (see picture).

The dustwrapper is in attractive condition, with some small tears and chips, including a 2cm tear to the top right of the rear cover, a small chip to the bottom of the rear cover, a split along the length of the front spine edge, and some chips to the head of the spine (see picture).  The book itself is in excellent condition, having been protected by the dustwrapper, and has just a very small patch of fading to the top of the spine, matching the chipping to the dustwrapper (see pictures). Light browning to the untrimmed page edges and to the prelims (see pictures).  Original  endpapers. Binding sound and square. A very nice example of this rare item.

This first printing was printed in a run of one thousand copies, of which 740 were issued in the UK by Heinemann. The most important book of First World War Poetry.

We take great care in the packaging of all our books to ensure that they arrive as described.

Please view our other books now on sale. We maintain at least 5,000 listings, and have been successfully trading on ebay since 2002. We have specialist sections of Signed Books, Detective Fiction, and Scarce Modern First Editions.