Books

First edition. Original green cloth in pictorial John Ward dustwrapper. Inscribed to Pamela Dugdale on front endpaper "Inscribed for Pamela Dugdale - a dear neighbour - Laurie Lee Christmas 1959". A fine copy in a fine (price clipped) dustwrapper, which is very bright and crisp. Line drawings by John Ward. The author's most famous book, a quasi autobiographical novel, that has become a minor twentieth century classic. "I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began." So begins the famous story of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, detailing the innocence of a rural idyll set in a bygone age.

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.