Sherston’s Progress.

SASSOON, Siegfried.

Item Number: 126521

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1936.

First edition of the final book of Sassoon’s semi-autobiographical trilogy, preceded by Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.

English poet, writer, and soldier Siegfried Sassoon was 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-fueled war. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalized autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy".