Laurie Lee – Cider With Rosie – First UK Edition 1959
£250.00
A first edition, first printing of Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee, published by The Hogarth Press, London in 1959. A very good copy with a former owner’s name in black ink to the front paste-down, spots of white paper residue to front board, spine and spot to rear board, bumping to lower corner of front board, toning and foxing to the text block, foxing to the prelims. In a similarly very good unclipped wrapper with closed tear to heel of the spine, toning to the spine and internal spotting. Jacket design by John Ward.
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee is a lyrical memoir of childhood in a Gloucestershire village after the First World War. It recalls a vanished rural world of family, seasons, poverty, gossip, ritual and awakening desire. Lee writes with warmth, humour and poetic detail, turning ordinary village life into something vivid and mythic. The book is both nostalgic and unsentimental, capturing innocence, hardship and change.
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A first edition, first printing of Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee, published by The Hogarth Press, London in 1959. A very good copy with a former owner’s name in black ink to the front paste-down, spots of white paper residue to front board, spine and spot to rear board, bumping to lower corner of front board, toning and foxing to the text block, foxing to the prelims. In a similarly very good unclipped wrapper with closed tear to heel of the spine, toning to the spine and internal spotting. Jacket design by John Ward.
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee is a lyrical memoir of childhood in a Gloucestershire village after the First World War. It recalls a vanished rural world of family, seasons, poverty, gossip, ritual and awakening desire. Lee writes with warmth, humour and poetic detail, turning ordinary village life into something vivid and mythic. The book is both nostalgic and unsentimental, capturing innocence, hardship and change.
