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London: Faber and Faber, 1946 Blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. Tight and square, very light wear, gift inscription in front. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Oxford: ISIS, 2000 Card covers. Tight and square, moderate markings, minor wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Faber and Faber, 1947 Blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. Very tidy, just minor shelf wear. Dust jacket is unclipped, tiny gaps at spine ends, a touch of foxing, protected in a removable clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1946, 1st edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under yellow dustwrapper with green lettering. 7.75ins x 5.25ins, 272pp. Dw has couple of small nicks else VG / VG.

London : Faber & Faber, (1947). Second impression of the original 1946 edition, but here furnished with a delightful and artistic hand-made additional dust-jacket. Phoebe Carpenter takes over the farm while her husband is away at war and transforms it from pasture to ploughland, buying the latest machinery, and becoming the most successful farmer in the area before facing her final hurdle - the return of her husband to a farm no longer recognisable as his own. "Here set forth in great good humour and, if one may say it for want of a better word, tenderness. This is a book to read and re-read at leisure" (Exeter & Plymouth Gazette, 3rd January 1947). Crown 8vo (20cm). 272pp. Original blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt; a touch of fading and a few spots but a very good copy in the striking original Berthold Wolpe dust-jacket, the whole protected in the hand-drawn jacket depicting the village square and characters from the novel. An unjustly neglected novel here paid a handsome tribute by an early… Read More