Hitler’s Whistle
STREET, A. G.
FIRST EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943
Stock code: 19575
Price: £85.00
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 14 plates of photographs by Eric Guy, small neat contemporary initials on front free endpaper, fore-edges mottled; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, covers lightly age-marked and faded at edges else a good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and rubbed at edges.
Arguably the scarcest of his wartime collections, this important Street title is based on his week-by-week farming diary of the first three years of WWII. Prior to the outbreak of war Street had been primarily a writer and broadcaster; this account of his return to the land gives much fascinating detail on the farming practices of the period. The 'whistle' of the title refers to an air-raid siren. This scarce work is rarely found in really good condition due to stringent wartime production standards. Any dustwrapper is a real bonus. Enser, p.74.