xvii, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.
General Note
`Of this edition of Memoirs of an Infantry Officer two thousand copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club. It has been designed by Dennis J. Grastorf with drawings by Paul Hogarth and printed at The Anthoensen Press in Portland, Maine.’ [colophon]
`Copyright 1930 by Coward-McCann Inc., copyright 1957 by Siegfried Sassoon, copyright 1967 by Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon. This edition is published by arrangement with The K.S. Giniger Company Inc. and Satackpole Books, and its special contents are copyright 1981 by The Limited Editions Club, Inc.’ [verso of title page]
Contents
1. At the Army School -- 2. The raid -- 3. Before the push -- 4. Battle -- 5. Escape -- 6. At the Depot -- 7. Rouen in February -- 8. The Second Battalion -- 9. Hospital and convalescence -- 10. Independent action
Copy Note
Copy number 1234 of an edition of 2000, numbered and signed by the artist in the colophon.
Binding Note
Natural linen covers titled in black on the spine with a decorative black trumpet by Deborah Evetts stamped in black on the front and back covers. In tan coloured slipcase.