Author: HENRY WILLIAMSON
Title: The Labouring Life. (DOUGLAS JORDAN'S COPY)
Description: Jonathan Cape, London, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). This copy is from the library of Douglas Jordan, who as a seventeen-year-old was employed by Williamson at Old Hall Farm and proved to be an exceptional cowman. Jordan was known affectionately as 'Lump' to the family and appeared in the 'Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight' novels as "Ackers". His signature is inked beneath the half-title followed by "'Ackers' of the Norfolk Farm". Williamson re-met Jordan in the early 1970s, some thirty years after originally hiring him, whilst filming scenes for David Cobham's film 'The Vanishing Hedgerows' and penned a brief but glowing diary entry about the reunion. 8vo. 491pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the author's owl logo gold-stamped to the upper board. With two-colour map-illustrated endpapers (drawn by the author) and a photographic portrait frontispiece. The backstrip faded and with a little further uneven fading to the board margins. A small circle of light miscellaneous staining to the upper board and several corner tips lightly rubbed. Spine ends rubbed and the binding just a little tender at the half-title. Endpapers and several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. A good copy with a nice association. No dust wrapper. A companion piece to the author's 'The Village Book' (1930), detailing further characters and escapades from post-war Georgeham. A nice association copy. "The memories we treasure of Henry and his Norfolk Farm we hold dearly to our hearts and when someone mentions Henry Williamson we say with pride, yes I worked with his on his Norfolk farm" - Douglas Jordan, writing in the Henry Williamson Society Journal. Good/No Jacket.

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