Henry Williamson — The Power of the Dead

London, MacDonald, 1963. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the eleventh novel in Henry Williamson's extensive series about his fictional character Phillip Maddison, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. In the original publisher's price-clipped dustwrapper. This is the eleventh novel in 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight', a series that follows the life of Phillip Maddison from the late 1890s to the early 1950s. The series totalled in fifteen volumes. 'The Power of the Dead' takes place whilst Phillip is mourning the death of his child wife, and his friends who died in the war. The novel is mostly set in the north of Cranborne Chase. Written by Henry Williamson, an English novelist who won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for 'Tarka the Otter&apos. Three pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. As small amount of bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. Some minor discolouration to the dustwrapper, and light marks to the wraps and to the reverse. A small amount of edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.