Laurie Lee, Works, most first editions and signed by the author [various UK, 1944-1991] a group of 9 works, comprising: The Sun my Monument (1944, annotation copy, bookseller's label to upper pastedown, dust-jacket spine darkened, extremities a little chipped and worn), Peasants' Priest (1947, original printed wrappers, a little darkened), The Bloom of Candles (1947, John Lehmann book review slip loosely inserted), Cunard Atlantic Fairway (n.d., early 1960s with numerous illustrations and glassine pages, unsigned, original fold-out wrappers), The Firstborn (1964), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), I Can't Stay Long (1975), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1985, later illustrated edition, inscribed by he author), A Moment of War (1991, unsigned), all original cloth or boards, dust-jackets present where applicable, 4to & 8vo The annotation inscription present in The Sun My Monument reads The evening, the heather, the unsecretive cuckoo and butterflies in their disorder, being the first three lines of the first poem in Laurie Lee's first published work in book form.
Laurie Lee, Works, most first editions and signed by the author [various UK, 1944-1991] a group of 9 works, comprising: The Sun my Monument (1944, annotation copy, bookseller's label to upper pastedown, dust-jacket spine darkened, extremities a little chipped and worn), Peasants' Priest (1947, original printed wrappers, a little darkened), The Bloom of Candles (1947, John Lehmann book review slip loosely inserted), Cunard Atlantic Fairway (n.d., early 1960s with numerous illustrations and glassine pages, unsigned, original fold-out wrappers), The Firstborn (1964), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), I Can't Stay Long (1975), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1985, later illustrated edition, inscribed by he author), A Moment of War (1991, unsigned), all original cloth or boards, dust-jackets present where applicable, 4to & 8vo The annotation inscription present in The Sun My Monument reads The evening, the heather, the unsecretive cuckoo and butterflies in their disorder, being the first three lines of the first poem in Laurie Lee's first published work in book form.
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