LAURIE LEE. — I Can't Stay Long. (INSCRIBED)

Andre Deutsch, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Edna - Tom's sister - (lucky he is) with best wishes from Laurie lee, Chelsea 1977". 8vo. 232pp. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece of the author and handsome chapter page decorations by Susan Campbell. Some wear to the spine ends and corner tips and just a little give to the binding. Some creasing to the final four leaves. A good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just an occasional trace of corresponding edge-wear. A collection of twenty-three short pieces, mostly travel, some hitherto unpublished outside the US. Oliver-Jones A15b., Good, Very Good