The Illustrated Cider with Rosie - Hardcover

Stated First American Edition in unclipped dust jacket. Very clean, unfaded green cloth boards with white polka dots, blind-stamped lettering on cover. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Beautifully illustrated with sepia photographs, full color art. 224 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, has one very small corner chip, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Laurie Lee's matchless memories of his childhood growing up in a tiny Cotswold village in the early 1920s. The illustrations in this beautiful new edition speak for themselves, but among them are some special teasures--a handful of precious photographs of that time and place preserved by the author for over fifty years, and carefully reproduced in their original sepia tones. Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 - 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire. This is his most famous work, originally published in UK in 1959.