SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber and Faber. 1931. 8vo. First edition thus. Exceptional pictorial boards, top edge speckled red, other edges untrimmed, with pictorial endpapers and remarkable colour illustrations throughout. In the dust jacket or remnants thereof, all produced by the inimitably talented Barnett Freedman. The book almost fine, the boards clean, gently pushed around headband and tail, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket with large loss to front panel bottom edge, the front flap also lacking. Several smaller chips and loss, but still quite presentable on the shelf.
A high point in book illustration of the time, and one of Freedman’s finest executions, bringing to life Sassoon’s harrowing and powerful portrayal of front-line experiences of the First World War.
SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber and Faber. 1931. 8vo. First edition thus. Exceptional pictorial boards, top edge speckled red, other edges untrimmed, with pictorial endpapers and remarkable colour illustrations throughout. In the dust jacket or remnants thereof, all produced by the inimitably talented Barnett Freedman. The book almost fine, the boards clean, gently pushed around headband and tail, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket with large loss to front panel bottom edge, the front flap also lacking. Several smaller chips and loss, but still quite presentable on the shelf.
A high point in book illustration of the time, and one of Freedman’s finest executions, bringing to life Sassoon’s harrowing and powerful portrayal of front-line experiences of the First World War.
