2 Siegfried Sassoon first editions are documented on this shelf, from Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918) to Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Siegfried Sassoon title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Counter-Attack and Other Poems — 1918 · William Heinemann, LondonTrue first: London, printed by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited for William Heinemann, 1918 (Keynes A17a; 1,500 copies). Octavo, roughly 181 x 120 mm, issued in original printed stiff wrappers — red and orange — with fore-edge (French) flaps folding over the endpapers; no dust jacket was called for on the wrappered issue. The title page bears the Heinemann imprint and the 1918 date with no impression statement;…. Heinemann's London 1918 edition is the true first. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1918 is the first American edition and is separately collected because it adds an introduction by Robert Nichols not present in the London printing — Nichols's introduction is dated from New York City in late November, placing the American edition after London publication. Dutton reprints dated 1919 and 1920 (the latter carrying a…. No book-club edition is documented for the 1918 printings. Reprint tells are the stated impressions — Heinemann 'Second impression' (1918) and 'Fourth impression' (1919) — and the dated/numbered Dutton printings of 1919 and 1920. The poems were reset for The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (Heinemann, 1919), which is a 'first thus' collection and not a first edition of Counter-Attack.
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man — 1928 · Faber & GwyerLondon: Faber & Gwyer, 1928 — first impression of 1,500 copies, issued 28 September 1928 with no author's name anywhere in the book: title page, spine and jacket all present the work as anonymous, the jacket blurb describing an author who wished for the present to remain anonymous. That anonymity is the single most reliable point, because Sassoon's name was added during the second impression (after roughly its…. The London Faber & Gwyer 1928 issue is the true first, confirming the census claim. The imprint became Faber & Faber in 1929, so a 'Faber & Faber' title page is by definition a later impression or edition, never the first. The first American edition is Coward-McCann, New York, 1929, which carries Sassoon's name and William Nicholson's seven full-page drawings and was printed at the Chiswick Press in London; it is…. The 1929 Faber & Faber edition illustrated by William Nicholson is a first-illustrated 'first thus', not the first edition — a common trap. Later impressions are stated on the verso, and Sassoon's name on the title page marks a copy at earliest from the later part of the second impression. No book-club issue tells for this title were documented in the sources consulted.

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