Cider with Rosie [with] As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning [with] A Moment of War
( John WARD; Leonard ROSOMAN; Keith BOWEN, illus. ) LEE, Laurie
[With Drawings by John Ward, Leonard Rosoman, Keith Bowen respectively.]
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Hogarth Press Andre Deutsch Viking, 1959-1969-1991
Stock code: 49477
Price: £540.00
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (first and second volumes) and illustrations (several full-page) in the text, first volume with neat inscription on front paste-down; cloth (green/orange/black respectively), backstrips lettered in gilt (first and second volumes) and silver (third volume), second volume with green top, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
The trilogy comprises: Cider with Rosie (1959); As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969); A Moment of War (2011). The first volume is the first issue with the 'piano factory' passage (p.272) omitted from subsequent printings. COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST EDITIONS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.