Down at the Vicarage by Eastment, Winifred

Very good for age in similar dustjacket. Price clipped. Signed by the author on the title page.

NorthWay North, Letchworth: Letchworth Press, 1967. 1st Edition 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Clarke, John. 2nd impression. 262pp. Illustrated with line drawings by John Clarke. Red publisher's cloth covered boards (very gentle shelf wear at edges). Internally neat and clean barring small tape mark on front and rear endpapers, and previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. In its original dust jacket (gently rubbed at edges, else bright, fresh and tidy).

England: Egon Publishers, 1979. "Upper Bellpull" - bearing the faint traces of a feudal hangover - would be any small country parish, quiet, mellow, naturally attractive, enjoying a tempo of unhurried contentment; its people could be any little rural community winning a livelihood from the soil by relentless hard work and good husbandry. In fact, it is so typical that you could easily mistake it for that delightful little place you have often streaked through on your way to the coast, meaning to stop one day for a closer look - not, of course, that you would wish to linger unduly, let alone settle permanently, in any drowsy pastorial retreat. Ah, now that's where you would be quite wrong! Never imagine that village life, by implication, is dull, stagnant and boring; the author, for instance, found life beneath the beguiling calm at Upper Belpull rich in incident and full of surprises. It was there, in fact that she learnt one lasting lesson of philosophic value: always to expect the… Read More