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The Grasshopper Press / Cicada Books, Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, 1978. First Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Near Fine Condition. Srawberry Fare is the product of its author's imagination working freely on memories of boyhood and youth in a SuffolkÂNorfolk border village. Woven around the central character - a fictional hybrid bred from the genes of a flush of well remembered real-life worthies - are a series of tales in the oral tradition, helped in the telling by a generous splattering of dialect. Some of these tales are simple, artless almost to the point of naivety, yet all are strikingly descriptive of the tenor and way of life in 'that winsome border country where North Suffolk nudges South Norfolk, separated by the Waveney's straggle' before television, the universal motor car and the welfare state combined to change the countryman's life-style and rob him of much of his ingenuity. 'Strawberry', says the author at the very beginning 'was a…
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Strawberry Fare: Tales of a Suffolk Countryman Paperback - 1978
by Johnson, Shildrick
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- Title Strawberry Fare: Tales of a Suffolk Countryman
- Author Johnson, Shildrick
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- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Grasshopper Press, Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire
- Date 1978
- ISBN 9780904701050
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Huntingdon: The Grasshopper Press, 1978. Good. 8vo. 210 x 145mm, 88 pages. Sketches. Book condition: Good, clean, bright, not faded, faint crease to cover, firm binding, minor corner loss to first couple of pages(tiny!). Comments: A collection of country tales based in a Suffolk village on "the right side of the Waveney" involving 'Strawberry' a character made up of many village individuals, and showing village life of the early 20th century.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Grasshopper Press. paperback. Very Good++. 0x0x0. Grasshopper Press. 1978. First Edition. Clean tight and bright; two pages have small fold at bottom corner, cover is Clean and strong lightly sun faded at spine.
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