Author: GEORGE J.GILL. Henry Williamson
Title: A Fight Against Tithes. Edited by Donald Gill and S.S.Gill and with an Epilogue by Henry Williamson.
Description: Privately Printed, Haslemere, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 88pp. Salmon paper-covered boards with a title-label to the upper board. Frontispiece. A very good copy, just a little rubbed at the head of the backstrip. Former owner name inked over a slightly scuffed area of the front free endpaper. No dust wrapper, as issued. George Gill (from the same family as Eric Gill) died prior to completion of this work and it was finished by his wife who showed the manuscript to Henry Williamson because of his farming links. A note at the front thanks Williamson for his "unrestricted help" and he also provides the epilogue (dated 1949) which includes a number of his personal wartime farming recollections ("During late February I had been plowing all night by the moon and all day by the sun in order to catch up with the work. Carting and loading 200 tons of sugar-beet in a rainy autumn had kept the tractor-plow idle, as labour was short in those war years. I was a teamsman, too, and had to feed three horses at 5.30a.m. And, of course, the business manager and clerk, filling in forms for wood, for new machinery, for petrol, for feeding-stuffs, for seed-corn, as well as the accounts, in time snatched from meals and mending machinery which was always being broken. There was book-writing, too, in order to educate the children for my farm, locally known as convalescent Home supported all who worked on it, except the farmer"). Scarce. Very Good.

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