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[London]: The Limited Editions Club, 1977., 1977.. Very good. - Octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 7 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in brown cloth with a gilt device stamped on the front cover and backed with a red leather spine titled in gilt. The book is housed in a peach slipcase titled in gilt on its spine. The top edge is gilt. The slipcase is soiled and the head of the book's spine is lightly bumped. 284 & [2] pages plus the colophon, illustrated with black and white textual illustrations and 8 color plates by Paul Hogarth. Near fine in a very good slipcase. Number 368 of a limited edition of 1600 copies. The book was printed at The Curwen Press, London. It was illustrated with lithographs by Paul Hogarth and is SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Fine. Paul Hogarth. Bound in publisher's original quarter red leather with brown cloth. Spine and cover stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Publisher's original slipcase in peach colored paper with some insect damage to extremities. One of 1600 numbered copies signed by Paul Hogarth.

London: Faber and Gwyer / Faber and Faber [through 1936], 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. An uncommonly handsome set of Sassoon's celebrated World War I trilogy, one of the great classics of English literature (Fox-Hunting Man was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize). First Impressions of the three separately published volumes. Crown 8vo (186 x 122mm): 395,[1]; 334,[2]; 280pp. Uniformly bound in publisher's French blue cloth, spines lettered in gold, top edges stained, respectively, saffron, pink, and reddish brown; plain paper dust jackets, all priced 7/6, cream printed in blue (Fox-Hunting Man), pale yellow printed in black (Infantry Officer), and French blue printed in black and red. Fox-Hunting Man: Published anonymously, in an edition of only 1500 copies. Misprint on line 1 of p. 191 ('merey' for 'merely'), but 'platoon' spelled correctly on penultimate line of p. 365. (According to Keynes, the "typographical irregularities have no significance… Read More