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[The Sherston Trilogy:] Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Sherston's Progress.
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[The Sherston Trilogy:] Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Sherston's Progress. [3 Vols.]

Publication details: Faber & Gwyer and Faber & Faber, 1928-1936,

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The set of author Richard Adams, whose library, dispersed at auction, was notably strong in poetry and memoirs of the First World War - his bookplate an engraved design featuring a rabbit.

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FIRST EDITIONS, ONE OF 260 'LARGE PAPER' SETS, each volume numbered (out of 260, 750, and 300 copies respectively) and signed by the author, printed on English handmade paper, pp. 395; 334; 280, 8vo, original blue buckram, backstrips lettered in gilt with variable fading (successively less), the first volume with some very gentle marginal fading to the upper board also, t.e.g., others untrimmed and slightly toned, first volume with some light spotting to endpapers, third volume with free endpapers browned, the first volume with the bookplate of author Richard Adams (all volumes from his library), very good

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