Cider With Rosie
Hogarth Press, 1959.
First edition. Original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine in pictorial dustwrapper illustrated by John Ward. Line drawings by John Ward. A near fine copy, with light spotting to the page edges, in a near fine (price clipped) dustwrapper, with a little wear to the head and tale of the spine.
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: 47117
