Inscribed "from George" in Sassons hand. Newspaper review by harold nicolson laid in on the front. Frontispiece portrait by Glyn Philpot, wood engraving on title and dust jacket by Reynolds Stone. First edition. 8vo., a fine copy in original salmon-pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, no dj London, Faber and Faber. 1945 The third volume of Sassoon's autobiography. It did not appeal to everybody; Edith Sitwell dismissed the book as "one mass of treachery, fawning and snobbishness", whilst Edmund Wilson wrote it off as "narcissistic fatuity".