MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN

SASSOON, Siegfried; NICHOLSON, William

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1929

First illustrated edition. Original publisher's white cloth with black lettering, and red and black decorations, in pictorial dustwrapper. Inscribed by Sassoon on the half-title, "Dame Nellie Burton, from SS, Nov 5th 1929". A very good copy, light splash to cover, in a good dustwrapper, a little chipped and worn. Pictorial endpapers. Seven two-tone woodcut plates under tissue guards, and numerous head- and tail-pieces throughout. Nellie Burton met Siegfried Sassoon through Robbie Ross, and had formerly been Ross's mother's maid. At the time of making Sassoon's acquaintance, she was Ross's landlady, housing him on the first floor of 40 Half Moon Street: "She was a huge, forthright woman whom Sassoon came to adore - she called him 'my beloved Saint Siegfried' - and a fierce protector of her 'gentlemen' lodgers" (Egremont). Keynes A30d. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 42556

Bibliografische Details

Titel: MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN
Verlag: Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsdatum: 1929
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Auflage: 1. Auflage