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Watts and Co., 1944. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1944. First Edition. 49 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Watts & Co, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hard Cover/ Beige Cloth. Second Edition. No jacket. A little foxing, corners bumped. 49 pages..

Watts,, [1944]. 8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; original yellow cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in fragmentary dustwrapper, the latter wanting upper part of backstrip and all of rear panel. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS MOTHER, WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The author's fourth book, published shortly after his departure from the RNVR. In these poems, detailing sights and sounds of the English countryside, are clearly visible the affection and nostalgia which later made him famous as the creator of the 'Country Talk' series.