Laurie Lee: A Many-coated Man -

Hardback. Very Good.

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UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT.B/w photographic dw/dj. Black paper-covered bds with gilt letters
to spine/backstrip and black eps.12mo,xiiipp+69pp includes b/w frntis and 8 b/w photographs. On the morning of Tuesday,21 October 1997,many of his friends and admirers gathered at St James's Church,Picadilly,to celebrate the long and creative life of Laurie Lee,who had died earlier in the year.The occasion was organised by Jock Gallagher,former BBC producer and long-term friend,and by Laurie's wife and daughter, Cathy and Jessy.Together they assembled a number of people - fellow-writers,politicians,his publisher - who had known Laurie personally and had profound admiration for the man and his work. They each paid moving tribute to the man they had known,and the occasion was given extra resonance by many readings from Laurie's own work.This small book,which takes its title
from one of Laurie's best-known poems,prints the complete text of the… Read More

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,b/w subject portrait photographic upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges,no nicks or tears present and no bumping to corners.Printer's device (4 stamped,black ink Penguin logos) to top edge,else bright and clean,fore-edge bright; contents bright,tight and pristine. Unblemished black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black eps.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xxiipp+1-69pp [paginated] includes title page,b/w subject sculpture illustrated frntis, contents+illustrations lists,editor intro,11 contributor's sections,9 contemporary b/w photographs relating to the subject. Contributions by Rt Hon. David Blunkett, MP,Canon William Brassell,Dr Christopher Fry, P.J. Kavanagh, Bobby Kok, Tony Lacey, Roger McGough, John Mortimer, Brian Patten and His Excellency Richard Ryan, Ambassador of Ireland to Spain. The book takes… Read More