Over the Gate (First American Edition)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First edition. First printing, with "First American Edition" stated on copyright page. Hardcover. Crimson cloth over pink-and-crimson patterned paper-covered boards with white spine lettering. Fine in a near fine illustrated dust jacket. Jacket shows only minor edgewear. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 236 pages. Illustrated endpapers. The 8th novel in Miss Read’s Fairacre series, "Over the Gate" brings the reader back to the author's beloved English village, capturing its eccentric residents, seasonal rhythms, and village lore. Illustrated by J. S. Goodall. Miss Read was the pen name of Dora Saint, a former schoolteacher whose Fairacre and Thrush Green books became enduring classics of 20th-century English domestic fiction.