Woods by Bates H E, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Agnes Miller Parker, Illustrator (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition, SIGNED by author (inscribed presentation copy by Bates), in original dust jacket with separate removable publisher's banner still intact. Clean rust red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Very small tear at top spine corner. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper, signed and dated 1936. "For Vie, who, more than anyone is likely to understand whatever meaning there is in this book on these woods. - H. E. Bates - 1936." Pages and edges are clean, with 73 wood-engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 142 pages. Dust jacket is clean, with slight wear at spine ends, publisher's price intact on spine, wraparound band with comments about the book by George Bernard Shaw. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. "Through the Woods" exemplifies Bates' love of the countryside. It was his collaboration with the Scottish artist, Agnes Miller Parker, whose beautiful wood-engravings of the natural world adorn the book, that made it so successful. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing of 'When The Green Woods Laugh'. Published by Michael Joseph in London, 1960. A fine copy. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped, displaying the original 12s, 6d. The boards are free from notable chips and marks and the text blocks are bright and white. No inscriptions within and exceptionally clean within the book. Inscribed on the title page 'Bertram Rota/with cordial greetings/from his friend the/author/H. E Bates/1960'. Overall, this is a fine copy. The third in the series began by the 1958 novel The Darling Buds of May focusing on the Larkins, a family living in rural Kent. The title is a reference to William Blake's poem Laughing Song.