A cider with rosie5/13/2023 ![]() "An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished" (JB Priestly). "One of the great writers of the twentieth centur"y (Independent). "Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. There is hardly a sentence in it that does not set the sense of touch and smell, as well as sight and hearing, tingling" (Daily Mail ). "It has got a marvellous morning freshness. The identity of Rosie was revealed years later to be Lee's distant cousin Rosalind Buckland. It chronicles the traditional village life which disappeared with the advent of new developments, such as the coming of the motor car, and relates the experiences of childhood seen from many years later. The novel, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, is an account of Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, in the period soon after the First World War. Two inch tear on front of jacket, one and a half inch x half inch chip on back of jacket. Original pictorial dust jacket slightly darkened on spine. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettered spine. ![]() Black and white line drawings throughout, some full page, including frontispiece. London: The Hogarth Press, 1959.įirst edition, the suppressed or withdrawn first issue which includes the account of the fire at the piano factory (p. ![]() Item #02306 With the Suppressed Piano Factory Scene ![]()
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