Buy this book on-line WILLIAMSON**, HENRY: : THE LONE SWALLOWS AND OTHER ESSAYS OF BOYHOOD AND YOUTHLONDON.PUTNAM,1946. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,reprint.[Originally published 1922 (London,COLLINS - limited to 500 copies and without a dw/dj.) The first illustrated edn by C.F. Tunnicliffe in 1933 (London,PUTNAM),and a Limited illustrated edn followed in 1945.This illustrated edn reprinted November,1946 and is uniform with three other nature books of Henry Williamson's: 'Tarka the Otter',The Peregrine's Saga' and 'The Old Stag'.] No owner inscrptn but an unused modern(?) amorial crest illustrated bookplate (CHRIST CHURCH OXFORD' ) to front free endpaper and no price-clip to dw/dj.Matt,bright,generally clean but with some minimal,ubiquitous light grubbing,pictorial b/w woodcut artwork,by C.F. Tunnicliffe,illustrated front panel of dw/dj, with black lettering,critics' reviews to author's other already published titles to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or loss present.Small closed tears/nicks to top+
bottom, front spine/backstrip's gutter's edge. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtally pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and bright,clean plain white endpapers.UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st thus,xi-xivpp+242pp [paginated] includes note to new edition,a contents list/table,8 sections with essays etc.,24 full-page b/w woodcut style illustrations - frntis included,b/w illus chapter/essay tailpieces - all by C.F. Tunnicliffe; plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks, half -title,b/w woodcut illus frntis,title page,a dedication,title separator page and last page also unpaginated.
Mr Williamson has retained the title of his first "nature book",together with most of its contents.Otherwise it is a new book,containing as it does many new chapters,including the long 'A Boy's Nature Diary' (aged sixteen in 1913) which was written by the author when a boy at school just before the Great War,is now published for the first time.A comparison of this document,its unpremeditated clarity of style,observation of detail,and joie-de-vivre with the essays and stories written five years later,when the youthful war-veteran went to live in Devon,is,in the opinion of the publisher's, one of the most significant things about what is essentially a poet's book.
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