1969 It was the Nightingale
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first edition, first impression. The tenth volume in the popular semi-biographical series by Henry Williamson, A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight.
The series gives a great panorama of English life in a series of fifteen volumes, recounting the author's war experiences through the character of Phillip Maddison, whose life is explored.
A great account of the English nature and countryside, portraying the swiftly changing face of English society in an honest and sensitive manner.
In this novel, Phillip deals with the loss of his wife and raising a child, a cat, a dog, and an otter cub.
With the unclipped dust wrapper.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally excellent with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head an tail of the spine. The dust wrapper is unclipped and very smart with only minor shelf wear and a faint sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean.
Fine
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