George Sturt — A Small Boy in the Sixties
Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the last work of George Sturt. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. A story of rural life with chapters on neighbours, the park, the meadows, and superstitions. Written by George Sturt, an English writer on rural crafts and affairs. With an introduction by Arnold Bennett, an English author and novelist. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper also smart with chipping and the odd closed tear. Some areas have been sympathetically repaired to the reverse with tape. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good.
