Cider with Rosie -
Laurie Lee, John Ward (illustrator)
1959 - The Hogarth Press, London - First Edition. First issue with the mention of the piano works fire.
A fine first edition of this wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past. With the dust jacket and illustrations throughout by John Ward.
‘Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. It sings in the memory’ - Sunday Times.
‘An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished’ - J. B. Priestly. The first issue with the mention of the piano-works fire in page 272 which was later removed.
Octavo (book size 20.5x14cm), pp. [4] 280 [4]. In publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket priced ‘18s. net’ to lower corner of front flap. Condition: Fine but for a few small spots to upper edge in fine dust jacket. Ref: 112638 Price: HK$ 4,000
‘Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. It sings in the memory’ - Sunday Times.
‘An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished’ - J. B. Priestly. The first issue with the mention of the piano-works fire in page 272 which was later removed.
Octavo (book size 20.5x14cm), pp. [4] 280 [4]. In publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket priced ‘18s. net’ to lower corner of front flap. Condition: Fine but for a few small spots to upper edge in fine dust jacket. Ref: 112638 Price: HK$ 4,000