Books

Condition: Fine: all first editions, first impressions with full number line including 1, where called for. Cider With Rosie: Hogarth Press, 1959: Condition: Fine: first printing with the reference to the annual fire at the piano factory on page 272; very clean and bright original binding with firm spine tips and sharp corners to boards; no previous owner's marks; very clean and tight end papers and text block with no spotting or sunning. Dust jacket condition: Fine: attractive wraparound jacket design by John Ward. No browning or fading to the spine and no losses, tears, nicks or scuffs; not price clipped. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Andre Deutsch, 1969. Condition: Fine, with same absence of faults as above; drawings by Leonard Rosoman, Dust jacket condition: Fine: same features and lack of faults as before. A Moment of War: Viking/Penguin, London, 1991: Condition: Fine: Full number line including 1; cover illustration: Keith Bowen. Dust jacket condition: Fine: no faults as listed before. None of the three volumes are price clipped. A fine condition set for the collector.

Cider with Rosie is a memoir by Laurie Lee, where he describes his childhood in a tranquil Cotswold village during the years following World War I. Written in a lyrical, descriptive prose, the autobiography captures the essence of rural life and the innocence of childhood.