Books

London: The Hogarth Press. 1959. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with line drawings by John Ward. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh. Minor softening to spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks.Tiny mark to the fore-edge of the closed text block. Complete with the clean and bright dustwrapper showing just a touch of rubbing to corners and tips. Not price-clipped (18s. net to the front flap). A particularly attractive example. Inscribed by the author in blue ink to the title page, "Inscribed for / Ray Cole / with best wishes / from / Laurie Lee". The recipient is the veteran Chelsea bookseller, Ray Cole. Lee and his wife moved back to Slad, the village in Gloucestershire where he grew up, during the 1960s, but he always kept his…

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.

First editions have a plain green dust jacket with a photograph of a field on the cover.