1959 Cider with Rosie
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Description
Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Originally published in the same year 1959 by the Hogarth Press. This is an early Book Club edition.
Cider with Rosie is the first in a trilogy of three, followed by As I Walked Out One Summer Morning and A Moment of War. This novel is an account of Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire. The traditional life in a village during the period soon after the First World War, a traditional living that has disappeared in time and recollected in the author's mind many years later. Rosie was later identified as Lee's distant cousin Rosalind Buckland.
With unclipped dustwrapper.
Condition
In the publisher's original lime green cloth binding, with titles stamped in black to spine. Externally excellent wht minor shelfwear only. Dustwrapper is very smart, with minor shelfwear. Unclipped. Minor faint spotting internal to spine, not affecting cover. Closed tear to rear wrap repaired by previous owner. Marking to rear wrap. Spine is slightly sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Minor offsetting to endpapers, otherwise pages are bright and clean. Illustrated in text throughout.
Near Fine
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