Tales of a Devon Village [and] Life in a Devon Village.

Faber, London, 1945. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Editions (first printings) of these two volumes of country tales, extracted and heavily revised from the author's earlier works'The Village Book' (1930) and 'Labouring Life' (1932). Individual volumes as follows:'Tales of a Devon Village' (1945). First edition. 8vo. 224pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust soiled, and the free endpapers lightly spotted. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper, and a tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). A nice crisp copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, toned at the spine panel, and a little rubbed, chafed and spotted. Fifteen stories. 'Life in a Devon Village' (1945). First edition. 8vo. 288pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted and dust soiled. A very good copy in very slightly rubbed, soiled and spotted non-price-clipped dust wrapper. "[The Village Book and The Labouring Life were] two books I wrote some years ago . I was never fully satisfied with them; they were a collection of varying fragments, rather than unified books. Now, after an interval of several years of hard physical work . I have set about giving each its own unity, based on what spirit of truth accompanies my life" - from the author's note..