From a Highland Croft by Wood, Wendy Photographs by W M Thomson

Edinburgh London: Oliver & Boyd, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. First Edition. Boards in pale blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine. Previous owners' names on front pastedown and ffep. Pages show a couple spots of soiling, else generally clean. Illustrated with 12 full-pages b/w photographs by W. S. Thomson. Dust jacket has clear tape along top and bottom edges; light edgewear; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 48 pages. Twelve descriptive sketches, one for each month of the year, observing the environment and describing her life at a Scottish Highlands croft through the course of a year. The author, Wendy Wood (1892-1981), was an eccentric and gifted artist and one of the founders of the political party that would later become the Scottish National Party. From the jacket flap: ''I do not want the idealised description, but the real life with its rain, its corrugated iron and its storms. That there is beauty which cancels out the drawbacks is as… Read More