Only For Life: A Labouring Family From Civil War To Second World War (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)

VG/VG. First edition in d/w price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on verso of half-title page. Inscription reads, 'To Ray/best wishes/Peter Mimms'. On the front endpaper there is also a PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE ILLUSTRATOR, AUDREY APPLEBY TO RAY IN INITIALS. Inscription reads, 'R from A/Dec 99'. On the title-page 'Ray' has underlined in pencil the printed words 'with illustrations by Audrey Appleby' and added 'fellow Councillor. R'. A well-researched and authoritative family history of the Mimms Family from the Civil War to the Second World War. With Appendix: Family Tree, Bibliography and Index. Some light dusting to top-edge; else a near fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.