A VIEW FROM LAND'S END: Writers against a Cornish background.

UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,white background with colour pictorial illustrated front panel of dw/dj with brown+ black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly dust-soiled with faint,sporadic foxing/spotting,otherwise fairly clean,fore-edges brighter and cleaner but with minimal sporadic spotting/foxing to a much lesser degree than the top edges; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,8-188pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,acknowledgements VI (6) chapters,a literary gazetteer to Land's End; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table, and an index at rear.
There are two Land's Ends: the Land's End of the casual visitor to the spectacula rocky cliffs at Cornwall's western-most corner,and the Land's End of those who pause a while,held by the haunting underlying mystery of the area. Denys Val Baker,who lives in an old mill house near Land's End and who is the author of the well known series of books about his life there,writes in this new book of the spell that this Western tip of England - so well known in one way,so little in others - has exerted over writers through the ages,inspiring in them great works of art; he writes of the St Ives of Virginia Woolf, the Zennor of D. H. Lawrence,and the mining areas so well described in Winston Graham's and Hammond Innes's works.
Through their eyes he succeeds in conveying to the reader the land of Celtic mystery,of prehistoric remains, where despite the gift and the tea shops the old Cornwall slumbers on.
This edition is now out-of-print as the publisher ceased trading in the late 1980's. William Kimber himself,worked for Hutchinson for about 17 years before founding "William Kimber & Co" in 1950.It specialized in aviation, war memoirs, autobiographies and motor-racing titles until 1973 when "Haunted Cornwall" took off and the Ghost Stories became another specialty. The company was bought by Thorsons in 1988,and therefore ceased publishing under that name. William Kimber was purchased by Thorsons in 1988 and therefore ceased publishing under that name. Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989.William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. The name of William Kimber has not been used for publishing since that,making all previously published titles by them, out-of-print,under that name. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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