Author: DOROTHY UNA RATCLIFFE
Title: Delightsome Land
Description: London: The Hyperion Press, 1947. First Edition 3rd Impression. Hardcover. Fred Lawson. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in original light grey cloth with green title lettering to spine and upper cover in a Very Good Dust-Jacket with just a little light modest rubbing to the outer edges of the dustwrapper.Not price clipped and the book has one previous inscription present to the blank front endpaper.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness and there is NO leaning or rolling to spine.Contents of the book remain nice and clean internally with illustrations by Fred Lawson.Mrs McGrigor-Phillips (known as Dorothy Una Ratcliffe) was a Yorkshire Poet,but born in Brighton of a Yorkshire father.Dorothy moved to Leeds upon her first marriage and began a writing career that lasted from the 1920s all the way through to the 1960's and she had published some 40 or so books of poetry,memoirs,travel and plays. She was the youngest ever Lady Mayoress of Leeds in 1913.Her books have become much sought after in her much loved Yorkshire and elsewhere,8vo 182pp First Edition 3rd Impression Size: 8vo - over 5¾" - 6'' Tall. Near Fine .

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