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Gwenda Morgan; Peter Jerrome (Introduction by); Miriam Macgregor. The Diary of a Land Girl 1939-1945 [Together with a slip case]. The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, 2002.

Price: US$513.57 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 151pp + xvi prelims. Collection of thirty-one wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan, including frontispiece and colophon, illustrating extracts from the artist's diary during WW2. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper in a limited, numbered edition of 300 copies. This is copy #66. Green cloth half-binding with light green title label on spine. Illustrated light green paper covered boards. Lime green and white sewn headbands. Facsimile of the diary manuscript is reproduced on brown end papers. In fine condition. Enclosed within a card slip case, edged in matching green cloth. Few green scuff marks on one face of the slip case. Otherwise unmarked.

Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom

(Whittington Press.) MORGAN (Gwenda). The Diary of a Land Girl, 1939-1945. Illustrated with her Wood-Engravings [Postscript by Miriam Macgregor, with a Checklist of books illustrated by Morgan.]. Whittington Press, 2002.

Price: US$910.12 + shipping

Description: XXXVII/50 COPIES (from an edition of 300 copies) printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, this copy additionally signed by the printer, John Randle, 31 wood-engravings with some full-page, 4 photographic plates, title-page printed in green and black, these special copies with a folder of cloth and boards containing proofs of 8 additional engravings, pp. xii, 151, royal 8vo, original half dark green morocco, pale green boards, the upper board with a Morgan engraving printed in green, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, endpapers with facsimile of original manuscript printed in brown, the book and additional portfolio together in matching cloth and board slipcase, fine. A 'meticulous wartime diary of her time as a Land Girl, working on farms in and around her native Petworth' (John Randle).

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom

Morgan, Gwenda. The Diary of a Land Girl, 1939-1945. The Whittington Press, Risbury, Herefordshire, 2002.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine hardcover book in fine slipcase. Published without a dust-jacket. This is the half leather edition of the 2002 Whittington Press limited edition. The colophon page states: "This edition of 300 copies is set in 12-point Fournier and printed at Whittington from the thirty-one original engravings on Zerkall mould-made paper. 50 copies are half-bound in Oasis leather and contain proofs of a selection of the engravings." This copy is one of the 50 half leather copies, and is numbered "xiv" on the colophon page. The "proofs of a selection of the engravings" are enclosed in the publisher's separate quarter cloth hardcover folder. A colophon page accompanying the engravings states: "These eight further blocks are taken from the collection at Whittington, and show the variety of Gwenda's output." All eight engravings are present, and both the engravings and the hardcover folder are in fine condition. PLEASE NOTE: due to the weight and size of the book, folder, and slipcase, additional shipping charges may be required for shipment outside of the United States.

Seller: Magnolia Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.