This is a beautiful edition of Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of A Fox-Hunting Man, published initially in 1971 by the Folio Society. The book features fine binding and is illustrated by Lynton Lamb, making it a wonderful addition to any collection of classic literature. The dust jacket is intact and the book is in excellent condition overall.

The language of the book is English and it is an original print. The publisher is the Folio Society, based in London, and this is the 5th edition of the book published in 1979. It is a rare find for any collector of antiquarian and collectable books. The book is a great example of original literature from Europe, specifically the United Kingdom.

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917, which resulted in his being sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital. During this period he met and formed a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume, fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the Sherston trilogy consisting of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress. They are named after the protagonist, George Sherston - a young Englishman of the upper middle-class, living immediately before and during the First World War. The Sherston trilogy won high acclaim, and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man took the Hawthornden Prize for Literature for 1928. The three books were printed together in one volume, The Memoirs of George Sherston, in 1937

Part of a well preserved and loved collection of Folio Books, many of them collected but unread. Some slight age marks to the dust jacket due to storage, please look at pictures carefully, but otherwise in great vintage condition.

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