Author: LEE Laurie
Title: Cider with Rosie. With Drawings by John Ward. FIRST ISSUE IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO
Description: Hogarth Press,, 1959. 8vo., First Edition, First Issue, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, upper board with acorn sprig in gilt, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with floral motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made board slip-case with patterned lining, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Bright copy of the first volume of Lee's autobiographical trilogy, set in the village of Slad in Gloucestershire and with striking dustwrapper and illustrations by John Ward. This is the first issue, with the passage on the 'regular' fire at the piano-works (p.272), subsequently suppressed as the result of an action for libel.

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, laurie lee, john ward, cider with rosie, gloucestershire, glos, slad


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