Author: HENRY WILLIAMSON.
Title: Tales of a Devon Village [and] Life in a Devon Village.
Description: Faber, London, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Editions (first printings). Individual volumes as follows: 'Tales of a Devon Village' (1945). First edition. 8vo. 224pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Very good indeed in slightly chafed, nicked and dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper, internally reinforced at the head of the spine panel. 'Life in a Devon Village' (1945). First edition. 8vo. 288pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A very light scattering of spotting to the top edge and several corner tips gently bruised. Very good indeed in just fractionally rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The two volumes comprising edited tales from his collections 'The Village Book' (1930) and 'The Labouring Life' (1932): "two books I wrote some years ago . I was never fully satisfied with them; they were a collection of varying fragments, rather than unified books. Now, after an interval of several years of hard physical work . I have set about giving each its own unity, based on what spirit of truth accompanies my life" - from the author's note. Very Good/Very Good.

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