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CIDER WITH ROSIE
by LEE, Laurie; illustrated by WARD, John:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Hogarth Press. 1959. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with line drawings by John Ward. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh. Minor softening to spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks.Tiny mark to the fore-edge of the closed text block. Complete with the clean and bright dustwrapper showing just a touch of rubbing to corners and tips. Not price-clipped (18s. net to the front flap). A particularly attractive example. Inscribed by the author in blue ink to the title page, "Inscribed for / Ray Cole / with best wishes / from / Laurie Lee". The recipient is the veteran Chelsea bookseller, Ray Cole. Lee and his wife moved back to Slad, the village in Gloucestershire where he grew up, during the 1960s, but he always kept his Chelsea flat, doing much of his writing there during the week and returning to Slad for weekends. This is the first issue of Lee's great account of his childhood in Slad, containing the (subsequently suppressed) passage on p. 272 describing the fire at the piano-works. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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
- Lucius Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23126
- Title
- CIDER WITH ROSIE
- Author
- LEE, Laurie; illustrated by WARD, John:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: The Hogarth Press. 1959
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York, North Yorkshire
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
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