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Cider with Rosie
by Lee, Laurie
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good-
- Seller
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Athens, Greece
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About This Item
With drawings by John Ward. First Edition. 281 pp. 20,5x14 cm. The Hogarth Press, London, 1959.
--- First UK Edition. First issue. The first issue describing the fire at the piano factory (p. 272) subsequently suppressed.
--- Hardback (green), with dust jacket. Binding very tight, with no wear. Gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket has signs of scuffing and some discoloration on spine (see photo). Some foxing on top edge and light foxing on endpapers. Other pages clean and bright, unmarked.
"Cider with Rosie" was dramatised for television by the BBC in 1970 and again in 1998 by Carlton Television for ITV. It was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2010. It has also been adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans at the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.
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
- Pelargos Bookstore, MBS
(GR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9
- Title
- Cider with Rosie
- Author
- Lee, Laurie
- Illustrator
- John Ward
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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