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CIDER WITH ROSIE
by LEE, Laurie; illustrated by WARD, John; [HEPPLE, Norman]:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Hogarth Press. 1959. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed association copy. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with line drawings by John Ward. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips and corners, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps, the closed edge of the text block is a little toned and spotted. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which is a little toned at the flap edges. Not price-clipped (18s net to the front flap). � Inscribed by Laurie Lee in blue ink on the half title "To Norman and Jillie / with love / from / Laurie / Nov. 59". The recipients are the British portrait painter Norman Hepple and his wife Jillian. The Hepple family were close friends of Laurie and Kathy Lee, Norman and Laurie having met in the 1940s (probably at the Chelsea Arts Club where both were members). Genuine presentation or association copies of Cider With Rosie are scarce. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Synopsis
Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. In his teens Lee had already began to write poems. He had met two sisters who encouraged him in his writing aspirations. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning . During World War II he made documentary films for the General Post Office film unit (1939-40), and the Crown Film Unit (1941-43). From 1944 to 1946 he worked as an editor at the Ministry of Information Publications. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. He died in May 1997.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22780
- Title
- CIDER WITH ROSIE
- Author
- LEE, Laurie; illustrated by WARD, John; [HEPPLE, Norman]:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: The Hogarth Press. 1959
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York, North Yorkshire
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- Cloth
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- Dustwrapper
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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