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ADAMS, RICHARD The Day Gone By - An Autobiography
London, Hutchinson. 1990, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. Yellow endpapers, no inscriptions. 398pp plus 16pp b/w photographs. Minor marks to closed pages, remainder dot to base otherwise pages clean and bright in firm binding. This captivating and beautifully written memoir follows Adams from his birth in 1920 to the end of WWII. It contains a memorable recreation of the Adams family, while recording the childhood of an observant, deeply sensitive boy in Newbury, Berkshire, from the mid 1920s on. Adam's childhood was a happy one. His father was a keen amateur naturalist, and from him his son acquired his many and varied enthusiasms, from ornithology to plant life, from traditional songs to 'the races'. There was school, and first love, at Bradfield College, and undreamed, of freedoms at Oxford in the thirties, before, on 13 July 1940, he joined the army and took the train to Aldershot: 'It was carrying me away not only from my childhood and adolescence, never to return, but from an entire society and way of life.' In describing that way of life, and its sudden end, the author of Watership Down has written an autobiographical account, which is destined to become a classic. Very Good/Very Good.
Offered for AUD 20.00 = appr. US$ 15.94 by: Eccleston Books & Curios - Book number: 002312
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