Buy this book on-line WILLIAMSON**, HENRY: : Tales of a Devon Village.**LONDON.FABER & FABER,1946. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint.[Originally and first published 1945,this end 1946.] FINE-/VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip - publisher's yellow adhesive price label (3/6) to lower corner of inside flap of dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,green background to front panel with b/w lettering,green spine/backstrip with black lettering,rear panel with white background and black lettered publisher's advert for other published titles; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners. A very small 1/4" triangular chip with an approx. 1/2" extended closed tear, to front top edge of dw/dj - no other nicks,tears or splits present and miniscule rubbing with reciprocal chipping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top+ fore-edges very lightly toned and unusually,without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages; corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp -cornered,original,plain green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain white endpapers with minimal off-setting. UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,5-224pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, 15 stories of his ten years of his life in the North Devon village; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,title page with author explanation of books revision, to it's reverse.
'Tales of a Devon Village',with its companion volume 'Life in a Devon Village',is compiled from material gathered together originally in two books Willamson wrote some years previous and called 'The Village Book' and 'The Labouring Life'.Both dealt with an observed and authenticated period that had passed away - the first decade between
the two industrial wars of the 20thC.The author was never fully satisfied with them; they were a collection of varying fragments rather than unified books.
Now [then 1944/5] Williamson after an interval of several years of hard physical work,as labourer and farmer,has set about giving each book its own unity,based on what spirit of truth accompanied his life.
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