INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
Cider With Rosie
Hogarth Press, 1959.
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". Line drawings by John Ward. A fine copy in a fine (price clipped) dustwrapper, which is very bright and crisp.
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.
Stock ID: 45286
£1,850.00
