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Cider with Rosie
by Laurie Lee
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Longford , Longford, Ireland
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About This Item
The Hogarth Press. 1959.
True first edition of this classic of author's boyhood in the West of England. This edition has the reference to "a fire at the piano works" on p. 272 which was deleted from subsequent printings due to possible libel action.
Binding is tight. Cloth bound boards clean. Little if any signs of shelf wear. Very light spotting to fore and top edges.
Internally clean.
A previous owner wrote a few light jottings (indecipherable) on first blank (see images) Otherwise book is vg++.
DJ is not price clipped with very light chipping at head and tail of spine. It is a little dulled. Now in protective removeable sleeve.
Very good first edition.
All books securely packaged and dispatched by registered post with tracking.
Synopsis
Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. In his teens Lee had already began to write poems. He had met two sisters who encouraged him in his writing aspirations. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning . During World War II he made documentary films for the General Post Office film unit (1939-40), and the Crown Film Unit (1941-43). From 1944 to 1946 he worked as an editor at the Ministry of Information Publications. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. He died in May 1997.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dephen Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20239
- Title
- Cider with Rosie
- Author
- Laurie Lee
- Illustrator
- John Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- The Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 280
- Size
- 20.5cm x 14cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Biography, Cotswolds
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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