As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Deutsch, 1969.
First edition. Publisher's orange boards lettered in gilt in original pictorial dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed by Lee on the front free endpaper: "To Hermione from the man who never came to dinner alas! alas! with love, Laurie Lee 1969". Illustrated throughout by Leonard Rosoman. A fine copy in a very good pictorial dustwrapper indeed. Spine slightly faded with a little wear to the corners.
Lee's lyrical account of his journeys as a young man in the 1930s is a "masterpiece in English Travel writing" [Telegraph review]. This sequel to Cider with Rosie describes the time when he left home to go to London and thence to Spain armed with little more than an adventurous spirit and a violin. His description of a country teetering on the brink of civil war has become a classic, celebrated for its evocation of a long-shattered world, and for the lushness of its language.
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