[Laurie Lee] Various

Title Folios of New Writing - Autumn 1940
Date London 1940
Publisher The Hogarth Press

Description

First Edition. Laurie Lee's copy, from his library, SIGNED 'Laurie Lee | Nov. 1940'. Publisher's grey-green cloth with gilt lettering to the front cover, brown lettering to the spine. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to the book. Octavo. pp. [1-4] 5-160. Contains Three Poems by Laurie Lee: 'Winter 1939-1940', 'Song in Midsummer' and 'Music in a Spanish Town'. Also contains work by Virginia Woolf ('The Leaning Tower'), C. Day Lewis, George Orwell ('My Country Left or Right'), V.S. Pritchett, Jim Phelan, Stephen Spender and others.

Condition

A book in only Good condition with spotting to the cloth covered boards and lacking the dust-jacket, but with remarkable provenance of the then 26 year-old Laurie Lee.
Price: £250.00

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