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Description: Limited edition of 250 copies. Patterned cloth, oval title-label, 16mo, 190 x 135 mm, 43 pp. Printed in black, the linocuts and title in rust red, on Zerkall Silurian paper on the Wharfedale press. Bound by Smith Settle in red and blue patterned cloth with a buff oval title-label ( 80 mm) in a blind panel on the front. "We rushed this book out in autumn 1984 so that we would have it to give as presents during our trip to America. It turned out to be a mini bestseller and is now in its fifth edition. The illustrations catch the mood of the text nicely and ourselves, our children and animals are fairly readily identifable in Judith Verity's linocuts. We had some problems printing these as she obtained the lino by pulling up part of the floor of the village school nearby, and our first job was to scrape the cement off the back of each cut. Our Aga had been funded in part by the sale of our collection of books and working material to the University of Minnesota in 1983." - John Randle in David Butcher's Bibliography. top edge darkened, otherwise Near Fine.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom