Frank Mansell; Laurie Lee [Foreword] — Cotswold Ballads

Stroud, Richard Courtauld, 1974 . Cloth. A signed copy of this expanded, illustrated edition of Frank Mansell's very scarce volume of ballads about the Cotswolds. Flat signed by the Gloucestershire based poet Frank Mansell to the front free endpaper.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.First published in 1969, and again in 1970, this enlarged, illustrated edition features a foreword from Mansell's close friend - and fellow Cotswold's author - Laurie Lee, who helped Mansell publish and promote his work.With a small number of vignette woodcuts by Robert Ball. This work is very scarce in all editions. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Signed to the front free endpaper. Light edgewear to dust wrapper back strip head, with small closed tear to head of front wrap, and small mark to tail of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the odd instance of light spotting throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Robert Ball. Near Fine/Near Fine.