Author: HENRY WILLIAMSON.
Title: A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Complete in fifteen volumes. (PLUS AN ORIGINAL HEAVILY CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT PAGE).
Description: Macdonald, London 1951-69. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Editions (first printings). 8vo. Original publisher's cloth. Just a trace of very light spotting to two or three top- and fore edges. A former owner bookplate to the front free endpaper of a single volume. A superb set in very good handsome pictorial James broom Lynne-designed dust wrappers, eight of which are price-clipped, with two ('A Fox Under My Cloak' and 'A Test to Destruction') very lightly toned at the spine panels, and one more ('Donkey Boy') lightly rubbed and chipped at the spine panel ends. TOGETHER WITH an original corrected typescript leaf from 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'. One foolscap leaf (verso blank). Heavily corrected by the author in three different colours of ink and a further three of felt-tip pen, with over 100 words added in holograph. We have not been able to track down these passages in 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'; perhaps because they were totally revised away (even though, strangely, Williamson has written "Copied 4 Oct 1973" boldly in the margin). But it seems to cover the period at the end of chapter nineteen of 'A Test to Destruction', when the victory celebrations take place in Folkestone. A super set, which comprises the following volumes: The Dark Lantern, Donkey Boy, Young Phillip Maddison, How Dear is Life, A Fox Under my Cloak, The Golden Virgin, Love and the Loveless, A Test to Destruction, The Innocent Moon, It was the Nightingale, The Power of the Dead, The Phoenix Generation, A Solitary War, Lucifer Before Sunrise and The Gale of the World. Very Good/Very Good.

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