Author: HENRY WILLIAMSON
Title: The Children of Shallowford.
Description: Faber, London, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 292pp. With a frontispiece and sixteen photographs by the author. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges spotted and with a little more spotting to the endpapers and several (blank) preliminary and concluding leaves. A little wear to the backstrip ends and the upper and lower board margins. Former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the front free endpaper, alongside a second former owner name A good copy, really quite crisp internally, in price-clipped and a little rubbed, faded, tanned and spotted dust wrapper with four or five tiny slivers of loss from the spine ends and corner tips. An affectionate and mostly literal account of the early years of Williamson's growing family, based in part on a series of articles called 'Tales of My Children' which he had contributed to 'Family' in 1935. Good/Good.

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