SIEGFRIED SASSOON'S OWN ADVANCE COPY
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Faber & Faber, 1929.
First illustrated edition, very rare advance copy with a frontispiece by William Nicholson depicting the author ("George Sherston") and an unaltered list of illustrations including the frontispiece. Original publisher's white cloth with black lettering, and red and black decorations, in pictorial dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers, with rare black and white frontispiece of George Sherston. Seven two-tone woodcut plates under tissue guards, and numerous head- and tail-pieces thoughout. A near fine copy, in a good dustwrapper, a little chipped to the spine ends with some splits to the joints.
Sassoon's own advance copy of his first volume of memoirs, with the suppressed frontispiece and list of illustrations.
According to his bibliographer Geoffrey Keynes, "the book was to contain a frontispiece representing the author, but this was suppressed after the binding of two or three advance copies. At the same time the list of illustrations was reprinted in order to omit the frontispiece. No copies in the original form were issued for review or sale."
In fact, a survey of copies in commerce over the past fifty years points to there being more copies than Keynes suggests, though the number may be as few as 6-10.
PROVENANCE: Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967; no markings); thence by family descent.
Keynes A30d.
Stock ID: 42463
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