Cider with Rosie
( John WARD, illus. ) LEE, Laurie
With Drawings by John Ward.
FIRST ISSUE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hogarth Press, 1959
Stock code: 38910
Price: £290.00
8vo., First Edition, First Issue, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, one corner slightly bruised, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, very lightly rubbed dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip.
Bright copy of the first volume of Lee's autobiographical trilogy, set in the village of Slad in Gloucestershire and with striking dustwrapper and illustrations by John Ward. This is the first issue, with the passage on the 'regular' fire at the piano-works (p.272), subsequently suppressed as the result of an action for libel.