ENGLAND HAVE MY BONES

by White, T.H

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1936. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips bumped, worn; gift label inside front cover; from a library--signs of card pocket removal inside rear cover; location(?) number on title page; otherwise clean.. With 8 full-pg. white-on-black linoleum engravings by the author + various in-text drawings. First prtg. ||| `God keep my soul & England have my bones'--the March 1934-March 1935 diary of Terence Hanbury White (1906-64), English novelist / satirist, here records his pleasures / ponderings as he learns to fly an airplane--lands his first salmon--hunts partridge--renews familiarity with trees, singing blackbirds, snakes, gas-engines--wins at a game of darts -- listens to stories told by country neighbors. ||| White's 1958 `The Once and Future King,' adapted in 1960 as the Broadway play `Camelot,' made him financially comfortable.