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THOMPSON**, E[rnest] V[ictor]: : WYCHWOOD.** [Author SIGED+dedicated copy.**]

LONDON.MACMILLAN,1992.

ISBN 0333469380.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED+dedicated,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Warmly dedicated and signed: "To Margaret, Wishing you many hours of 'Happy Reading!' E.V. Thompson" to title page,in neat handwritten blue ink.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminted wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Tony Smith,illustrated dw/dj,spine/backstrip with ubiquitous sunning/fading with capitalised gilt lettered author+title to front,and repeated lettering to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges,corners and spine/backstrip - no nicks,tears or splits presentt.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - but without further blemish or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight and clean - near pristine,minimal page-edge toning aside - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered original tan cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED+dedicated,1st edn,1-306pp includes 51 chapters. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent an overall higher grading.Despite them,it really still is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. See also my book ID rja22196 for another UK,8vo HB+dw/djauthor SIGNED.1st edn copy of this title. Fatherless Seb Quilter is uprooted from the familiar surroundings of a nineteenth-century London slum and taken to begin a new and healthier life in the Cotswold village of Swinbrook,on the edge of the great royal forest of Wychwood.The dense forest,a refuge for gipsies,tinkers and fugitives from the harsh laws of the land,is under threat,and village life is very diffrent from anything Seb has known before. Seb's first encounter is with Anna,a blind gipsy girl who is more at home in the open air of the forest than in the houses of the 'gorgios'.When Anna's horse-owning brother is arrested and charged with highway robbery,Seb is launched on a series of adventures involving the amoral Melody,a Wychwood tinker-girl,and Carrie,the patient,crippled daughter of the man who befriends Seb and his mother. Wychwood is the story of a young man's fight for health and fortune,and of his impossible love for a girl whose background is alien to his own.It is also the story of a magnificent and ancient forest that is as doomed as the way of life of the gipsies who inhabit it. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/CANADA customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED and dedicated,1st edn.
Author SIGNED+dedicated.

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