Cider with Rosie
( John WARD, illus. ) LEE, Laurie
With Drawings by John Ward.
FIRST ISSUE IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO
Published: Hogarth Press, 1959
Stock code: 50424
Price: £485.00
8vo., First Edition, First Issue, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, upper board with acorn sprig in gilt, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with floral motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made board slip-case with patterned lining, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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.