First edition and issue, including libelous reference to the piano factory blaze ('a way of balancing the books', p.272, as shown in photos) which was subsequently removed. 21 x 15cm, pp.280. Publisher's hardback green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket and internal pages illustrated by John Ward, priced at 18s. Some spotting to edges, endpapers, and first and final few leaves, otherwise clean internally. Hardback jacket and dust jacket as shown. Leaves firmly bound. No warping. Very good. Laurie Lee's autobiographical story of his childhood in the Gloucestershire village of Slad in the period just following the Great War, detailing a traditional and simple life which disappeared with developments such as motorised transport.
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