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Henry Williamson. The Beautiful Years. A Tale of Childhood. Collins, London 1921. First edition of the author’s first book. 8vo. 248pp + iv publisher’s advertisements at rear. Top edge dust marked. A little wear to head and base of spine and cloth lifting a little in a number of places. Preliminary leaves spotted. Former owner name neatly inked to front endpaper. Quite a nice bright copy, almost inevitably missing the dust wrapper. The author’s first book, of which 750 copies were printed, and the first part of his four-volume The Flax of Dream sequence. £125

Henry Williamson. The Lone Swallows. Collins, London [1922]. First edition of the author’s second book. 8vo. 245pp + publisher's catalogue at the rear. Linen-backed boards and paper spine label. Bottom- and fore edges untrimmed. A touch of wear to the corners tips and a little light browning to the free endpapers. Half-title lightly spotted. Very good – an unusually well preserved example of quite a fragile production. No dust wrapper called for. Thirty-one nature essays, never subsequently published in this original form (one story, The Outlaw, was excluded from all subsequent reprints). 500 copies were printed. £75

Henry Williamson. The Lone Swallows. Collins, London [1922]. First edition. 8vo. 245pp + publisher's catalogue. Linen-backed boards with a chipped and very lightly tanned paper spine label. Bottom- and fore edges untrimmed. Boards just a little rubbed at tips of corners and with some spotting to the first five or six leaves. Endpapers browned. Neatly inked contemporary former owner gift inscription. Quite a bright copy of this rather frail production. No jacket called for. £50

Henry Williamson. Midsummer Night. Collins’ Clear-Type Press, ‘New World’ series, London [1924]. First edition thus. 8vo. 105pp + i publisher’s catalogue at rear. Original blue linen-covered card, lettered in black at upper board (the title here A Midsummer Night), very lightly chafed at one or two extremities. Photographic frontispiece. A little light spotting to the fore edge of the first four or five leaves and to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. Sixteen of the nature essays from The Lone Swallows (1922) issued (together with a companion volume of another thirteen essays, The Incoming of the Summer) for use as a school text book. Exceedingly scarce – copies very rarely come onto the market. £275

Henry Williamson. The Incoming of Summer. Collins’ Clear-Type Press, ‘New World’ series, London [1924]. First edition thus. 8vo. v, 107pp + [ii] publisher’s catalogue and advertisement at the rear. Original blue linen-covered card, lettered in black at upper board. Photographic frontispiece. A little moisture marking to the margins of the first four leaves and a touch of wear to the backstrip ends. Paperclip (?) impact mark to the front cover. A very good copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. Thirteen of the nature essays from The Lone Swallows (1922) issued (together with a companion volume of another sixteen essays, Midsummer Night) for use as a school text book. Exceedingly scarce – copies very rarely come onto the market. £275

Henry Williamson. The Lone Swallows and Other Essays of the Country Green. E.P.Dutton, New York 1926. The first American edition. 8vo. xii, 227pp. Attractive patterned paper-covered cloth, with spine and title labels printed in red. Pictorial endpapers by Charles E.Cartwright. Bottom and fore-edges rough-trimmed. Very minor foxing to fly-leaves, but otherwise very good in really rather worn dust wrapper, faded to illegibility at spine, and missing several small portions. A three-page preface by the author (the text of which differs from that of the UK edition), precedes twenty-nine stories (two from the UK edition are omitted and Lady Day in Devon is here re-titled March Day.). £70

Henry Williamson. The Lone Swallows and Other Essays of the Country Green. E.P.Dutton, New York 1926. The first American edition. 8vo. xii, 227pp. A hint of very faint tanning to leaf margins and some fading to spine label. A very bight copy, lacking dust wrapper. £50

Henry Williamson. The Lone Swallows and Other Tales of Boyhood and Youth. With illustrations by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Putnam, London 1933. The expanded and first illustrated edition. 8vo. xiv, 242pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-three full-page wood engravings and thirty-five line drawings used as head- or tailpieces. Cloth edges just a little darkened, some light partial browning to the endpapers and just a hint of spotting to the half-title and title page. First gathering just a little tender. A nice bright copy in the correct first state dust wrapper (a cheaper issued was issued several years later with a slightly different dust wrapper design), price-clipped, tanned at the spine panel, and a little rubbed, chafed, marked and edgeworn with some internal reinforcement. Forty-three essays, including sixteen which did not appear in any previous edition of this text. £30

Henry Williamson. Dandelion Days. The second volume of The Flax of Dream sequence. Collins, London 1922.  First edition – never reprinted in this original form. 8vo. 299pp + [vi] publisher’s advertisements bound in at rear. Spine ends nicked, cloth a little rubbed at tips of corners, top edge dust marked and publisher’s orange spine panel lettering a little faded. Endpapers lightly browned and with the occasional finger smudge and minor fox blemish to leaf margins. Binding a little tender in places. A nice crisp copy of the author’s third book, and the highly elusive second volume of his Flax of Dream sequence. Former owner name inked to front pastedown. Missing the highly fugitive dust wrapper. 600 copies were printed. £150

Henry Williamson. Dandelion Days. Book two of The Flax of Dream sequence. Faber, London 1930. The second edition, heavily revised and here published by Faber eight years after the original Collins edition. 8vo. 313pp. Top edge dust marked and with a light trace of browning and spotting to endpapers. A very good copy in dust wrapper, lightly spotted and tanned and with some more extensive tanning to spine panel with also exhibits several lengthy tears and some loss to head and base (the top portion has been retained and loosely held in place). An introductory note from the author, in the form of a letter to his agent Andrew Dakers, notes that “only seventeen sentences remain of the original published version”. 2,500 copies were printed. £35

Henry Williamson. The Peregrine's Saga and Other Stories of the Country Green. Collins, London 1923. First edition, never reprinted in this original form. 8vo. 301pp + viii publisher's catalogue at the rear. With a frontispiece and four plates by Warwick Reynolds. Spine ends rubbed with a touch of spotting to the top edge and a little discolouration to the cloth at the upper board. Just a hint of spotting to the free endpapers and half-title. A very good copy housed in the most uncommon dust wrapper, alas a somewhat handled example - dust soiled, nicked with nine or ten small areas of edge loss, and with five areas of internal taped repair and a little fading to the publisher’s red spine panel lettering. The remnants of a small sticker to the base of the spine panel. A modern facsimile of the dust wrapper is included, this one reproduced from a fine specimen. Sixteen stories, the author's fourth book. 600 copies were printed. £750

Henry Williamson. Sun Brothers. E.P.Dutton, New York 1925. The first American edition of The Peregrine’s Saga, slightly revised, and the first of Williamson’s books to be published in the US. 8vo. 298pp. Mottled grey-green paper-boards with paper spine and title labels. Decorated endpapers. Corners and board extremities a little rubbed and chafed and paper spine label a little chipped. An extremely crisp and bright copy of an uncommon edition, lacking the dust wrapper. Tiny dealer plate to front pastedown. Sixteen stories, the order rearranged from the UK edition of 1923, the five illustrations omitted and with some fairly minor textural revisions to each story. £75

Henry Williamson. The Dream of Fair Women. A Tale of Youth after the Great War. The third volume of The Flax of Dream sequence. Collins, London 1924. First edition. 8vo. 409pp + [xii] publisher’s advertisements. Some chafing and wear to the spine ends, corner tips and gutters. The binding just a little tender at the penultimate advertisement leaf. Some light spotting and staining to occasional leaf margins. Former owner name and date (1952) neatly inked to the front free endpaper and a small Times Book Club to the rear pastedown. A good copy, lacking the most fugitive dust wrapper. The author’s fifth book and third novel, which was never reprinted in this original form. 750 copies were printed, 150 more than Dandelion Days, the volume which precedes it, yet this remains by far the most uncommon of Williamson’s first three Flax of Dream novels. £250

Henry Williamson. The Dream of Fair Women. The third volume of The Flax of Dream sequence. E.P.Dutton, New York 1924. The scarce first US edition. 8vo. xi, 463pp. Gilt-shot patterned paper boards backed in blue cloth with printed title and spine labels. The backstrip cloth a little faded, with some rubbing to the margins of the spine panel. Spine ends and corner tips rubbed. A hint of toning and very occasional soiling to the leaf margins. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front free endpaper. A very crisp and bright copy, lacking the scarce dust wrapper. This first US edition includes several minor textural alterations which were apparently unauthorised and appear in no other edition. Most uncommon. £150

Henry Williamson. The Dream of Fair Women. Book three of The Flax of Dream sequence. Faber, London 1931. The signed limited edition, number 196 out of a total edition of 200 copies printed on handmade paper. Royal 8vo. 446pp. Buckram covers, gold-stamped at spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Buckram lightly chafed and scored in one or two places, and very lightly rubbed at spine ends. A very good copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. A reworking of the original 1924 text, produced in a uniform style with the signed limited issues of The Beautiful Years, Dandelion Days and The Pathway respectively issued between 1929-1931. £150

Henry Williamson. The Old Stag. Putnam, London 1926. First edition. 8vo. 298pp. A strip of partial browning to endpapers, and a touch of spotting to edges, occasionally encroaching just a fraction to leaf margins. A very good copy housed in an extremely well preserved example of the dust wrapper, a little rubbed at the head of the spine panel with several tiny fractions of loss. Twelve stories, Williamson’s sixth book; twelve stories including accounts of staghunting, foxhunting and hare-coursing, tales of less common birds, including the heron, cormorant, and red kite, and several oddities including The Yellow Boots, a tale of a convict escaped from Princeton jail in Dartmoor. £45

Henry Williamson. The Old Stag. Stories. E.P.Dutton, New York [1927]. The first American edition of the author’s third book of short rural stories. 8vo. 347pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Spine ends and corner tips rubbed, yet still a nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper. Dealer inkstamp to the rear pastedown. Twelve stories. When compared to the English edition of 1926, this uncommon US edition contains a single minor textual revision. £20

Henry Williamson. Stumberleap: A Story Taken from The Old Stag. “With Greetings from G.P.Putnam's Sons" [no date - probably Christmas 1926]. The first (and only) separate edition. Slim 8vo. 33pp + vi adverts. Stapled card wrappers, featuring the design by Lionel Edwards reproduced from the dust wrapper of The Old Stag, slightly creased and nicked at the yapped edges, as is common. Four or five splashes of spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves, and also to occasional leaf margins. A very nice, crisp copy of this ephemeral item, issued shortly after The Old Stag was published and presumably intended to promote that book. £35

Henry Williamson. Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the County of the Two Rivers. With an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue K.C.V.O. G.P.Putnam & Sons Ltd, London 1927. First edition, the deluxe large-paper issue, limited to 1,100 copies [in fact only 1,000]. Tall 8vo. xii, 255pp. Cloth-backed cream buckram with a gold-stamped leather spine label. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The buckram a little darkened and with the tiniest hint of chafing and scoring to the leather spine label. Endpapers lightly spotted with some browning to a blank flyleaf and to the last printed leaf. A very crisp and bright copy of a handsome production. No dust wrapper called for. Henry Williamson Society reprint of the original pre-publication prospectus laid-in. £200

Henry Williamson. Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers. With an introduction by Sir John Fortescue. Putnam, London 1927. First trade edition (issued alongside a limited edition of 1,100 large paper copies). 8vo. viii, 255pp. Top edge lightly dust soiled, with some browning to the free endpapers and a single tiny nick to the rear gutter. A very good copy, lacking the most uncommon dust wrapper. Former owner initials and date neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. £55

Henry Williamson. Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the County of the Two Rivers. With an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. G.P.Putnam & Sons Ltd, London, 1928. Fourth edition, revised to incorporate some minor textural revisions suggested by T.E.Lawrence. 8vo. 255pp. Top edge dust marked and two tiny indentations to the head of the rear board. A rectangular piece has been clipped from the head of the front free endpaper, presumably to excise the details of a former owner. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper. £20

Henry Williamson. Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers. With illustrations by Barry Driscoll. The Nonesuch Press, London 1964. A newly illustrated edition, with nineteen full-page line drawings and map-illustrated endpapers by Barry Driscoll. An appendix reproduces the original Sir John Fortescue introduction which accompanied the first edition, plus the supplements The Gentleman's River and Apologia Pro Verba Mea by the author. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the upper edge and with the publisher’s laminate lifting a little at the upper gutter. £25

Henry Williamson. The Pathway. Jonathan Cape, London 1928. First edition. 8vo. 415pp. Top edge dust marked and with some spotting and fairly light partial browning to endpapers. A very good copy in dust wrapper, tanned at spine panel, and a little dust soiled and rubbed at extremities and with a tiny nick to the base of the rear panel and an inch-long tear the to head of the rear flap. (The blurb on the front wrapper flap contains the required misprint "last generation" instead of "lost generation"). A very good copy of the fourth and final volume of Williamson’s Flax of Dream sequence. Together with a proof copy of the first edition, bound in the publisher's plain unlettered card wrappers. £50

Henry Williamson. The Pathway. The fourth and final volume of The Flax of Dream sequence. Jonathan Cape, London 1928. First edition. 8vo.416pp. Some bruising to the backstrip ends and corner tips and a trace of very light fading to the cloth at the spine. Free endpapers partially browned. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. £15

Henry Williamson. The Flax of Dream sequence, complete in four volumes comprising The Beautiful Years, Dandelion Days, Dream of Fair Women [and] The Pathway. Faber, London 1929-1931 [and] Jonathan Cape, London 1928. The revised Faber issues of the first three volumes, and the correct first edition of the final volume. Individual volumes as follows: The Beautiful Years. (1929). The second edition, revised and issued here seven years after the original Collins edition (this being the correct first state issue, with two lines transposed on p.62). 8vo. 446pp. Binding just a fraction tender at several gatherings and with a hint tiny of partial browning to the free endpapers. Contemporary former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpapers. A very good copy lightly tanned and spotted price-clipped dust wrapper. A review copy, with the publisher’s review slip laid-in. Dandelion Days. (1930). The second edition, heavily revised and issued here eight years after the original Collins edition. 8vo. 313pp. Top edge very lightly dust marked and with just a trace of very faint partial browning to the free endpapers. A lovely bright copy in dust wrapper, a little tanned and lightly spotted, as is so often the case, and with just a touch of edge wear but nothing approaching significant loss. An introductory note from the author, in the form of a letter to Andrew Dakers, notes that “only seventeen sentences remain of the original published version”. The Dream of Fair Women. (1931). The second edition, heavily revised and issued here seven years after the original Collins edition. 8vo. 446pp. Backstrip ends very lightly rubbed and the edges lightly spotted. A lovely crisp copy housed in the uncommon dust wrapper, price-clipped, and somewhat tanned, spotted and chipped as is invariably the case, with some internal reinforcement. The Pathway. (1928). First edition. 8vo. 415pp. Backstrip ends gently bruised and with some light partial browning and spotting to the free endpapers and just a tiny hint of further browning to the half-title. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, light tanned at the spine panel with just a hint of occasional dust marking and touch of light edgewear. (The blurb on the front wrapper flap contains the required misprint "last generation" instead of "lost generation"). A very nice set, the Faber issues in dust wrappers are now increasingly elusive. £250

Henry Williamson. The Flax of Dream. Complete in four volumes comprising The Beautiful Years, Dandelion Days, The Dream of Fair Women [and] The Pathway. Faber, London 1929-1931 and Jonathan Cape, London 1931. The signed limited edition, issued in a four-volume uniform set with a revised text, printed on hand-made paper, each volume limited to 200 numbered copies and signed by the author. Individual volumes as follows: The Beautiful Years. Faber, 1929. #197 of two-hundred signed copies. Tall 8vo. Full blue buckram. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The backstrip faded and with a touch more fading to the upper margin of the rear board. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. A very good copy. Dandelion Days. Faber, 1930. #108 of two-hundred signed copies. Tall 8vo. Full yellow buckram. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The buckram a little faded at the backstrip, and a single tiny pinprick of spotting to the colophon leaf and to the half-title.  A very good copy. The Dream of Fair Women. Faber, 1931. #107 of two-hundred signed copies. Tall 8vo. Full red-brown buckram. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The buckram a little faded at the backstrip, else in fine state. The Pathway. Jonathan Cape 1931. #73 of two-hundred signed copies. Tall 8vo. Full green buckram. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The buckram quite discoloured at the backstrip, with a touch of wear to the spine ends and corner tips and some browning to the free endpapers. Very good. A very nice set, marred by the usual backstrip fading but otherwise in quite super shape. No dust wrappers called for. £500

Henry Williamson. The Ackymals. Windsor Press, San Francisco, 1929.  First edition - limited to 225 numbered and signed copies (this being #165). Small 4to. 23pp. Cloth-backed floral-patterned paper boards. With decorations by Julian Links. Pastedowns and free endpapers lightly spotted and with a former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Very good in the original unprinted tissue protector, slightly defective at spine panel, and rubbed, spotted and discoloured slipcase. £100

Henry Williamson. The Wet Flanders Plain. Beaumont Press, London 1929. First edition, one of 320 numbered copies (from a total edition of 400), printed on handmade paper (this being #300). 8vo. 95pp. Quarter-bound paper-covered fawn cloth featuring a striking design by Randolph Schwabe who also contributes a title-page illustration. Top edge lightly dust marked, endpapers lightly browned and with just a trace of the customary darkening to the backstrip. A virtually fine copy of a handsome production. No dust wrapper called for. A fusion of Williamson's two post-war visits to the Western Front battlefields, the first in 1925 and again in 1927, arranged in a loose diary format and merging his recollections with the contemporary scene. £150

Henry Williamson. The Wet Flanders Plain. Faber, London 1929. First trade edition (following a limited edition of 400 copies issued by Beaumont the previous year; this Faber issue very slightly revised). 8vo. 147pp. Top edge dust marked and endpaper very lightly browned. A trace of miscellaneous staining to occasional leaf margins. Very good in tanned, edgeworn and internally repaired dust wrapper with a small area of loss from the head of the spine panel (impacting ‘The’). 2990 copies were printed. £75

Henry Williamson. The Linhay on the Downs [and] The Firing Gatherer. Two stories. Elkin Mathews & Marrot ‘The Woburn Books’, London 1929. First edition, limited to 530 numbered copies, each one initialled by the author (this being #450). Slim 8vo. 26pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with pattern motif repeated on front and rear endpapers. A short slit to the head of the outer gutter, and a little inevitable toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in dust wrapper, toned at the spine panel and with a little further toning to several margins of the rear panel. The first bookform appearance of these two Williamson stories, the first of which was originally printed in the periodical Atlantic Monthly in 1927, with the second first appearing in Time and Tide the same year. £35

Henry Williamson. The Village Book. Jonathan Cape, London 1930. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 504 numbered and signed copies, this being #146. 8vo. 342pp. Vellum-backed cloth. With a portrait frontispiece and two brief sketches by the author. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some uneven fading to the cloth and a little darkening to the vellum backstrip, as is common with this production. Some quite light spotting to occasional text leaves. A very good copy, lacking the unprinted glassine protector, but with one of the paper flaps laid-in. £75

Henry Williamson. The Village Book. Jonathan Cape, London. 1930 First edition. 8vo. 342pp. Portrait frontispiece. A tiny speckling of spotting to the top edge and some partial uneven browning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in very good price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly tanned at the spine panel as is customary with this production, with a little chafing to the spine panel ends and a small area of quite light miscellaneous staining to the base of the front panel. A selection of tales and sketches written during the period Williamson lived in the north Devon village of  Georgeham ('Ham'), in-part inspired by various village characters. £35

Henry Williamson. The Labouring Life. Jonathan Cape, London 1932. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 122 hand-numbered copies signed by the author (this being #102). 8vo. 492pp. Vellum-backed cloth. With a tissue-protected frontispiece, and two-colour map-illustrated endpapers, designed by the author. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A trace of spotting to the free endpapers and to one or two preliminary and concluding leaves, else a fine copy. Lacking the unprinted glassine protector but housed in a custom-made slipcase. £250

Henry Williamson. The Labouring Life. Jonathan Cape, London 1932. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 122 hand-numbered copies signed by the author (this being #92). 8vo. 492pp. Vellum-backed cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with Williamson's owl logo gold-stamped to the upper board. With a tissue-protected frontispiece, and two-colour map-illustrated endpapers, designed by the author. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The vellum a little darkened as if often the case and with just a hint of spotting to the endpapers and pastedowns. Very good indeed albeit lacking the unprinted glassine protector. £200

Henry Williamson. The Labouring Life. Jonathan Cape, London 1932. First edition. This copy is from the library of Douglas Jordan, who as a seventeen-year-old was employed by Williamson at Old Hall Farm and proved to be an exceptional cowman. Jordan was known affectionately as ‘Lump’ to the family and appeared in the Chronicle novels as “Ackers”.  His signature is inked beneath the half-title followed by “’Ackers’ of the Norfolk Farm”. Williamson re-met Jordan in the early 1970s, some thirty years after originally hiring him, whilst filming scenes for David Cobham’s film The Vanishing Hedgerows and penned a brief but glowing diary entry about the reunion. 8vo. 491pp. With two-colour map-illustrated endpapers (drawn by the author) and a photographic portrait frontispiece. The backstrip faded and with a little further uneven fading to the board margins. A small circle of light miscellaneous staining to the upper board and several corner tips lightly rubbed. Spine ends rubbed and the binding just a little tender at the half-title. Endpapers and several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. A good copy with a nice association. No dust wrapper. £35

“The memories we treasure of Henry and his Norfolk Farm we hold dearly to our hearts and when someone mentions Henry Williamson we say with pride, yes I worked with his on his Norfolk farm” – Douglas Jordan, writing in the Henry Williamson Society Journal.

Henry Williamson (published anonymously). The Gold Falcon; or The Haggard of Love. Being the Adventures of Manfred, Airman and Poet of the World War, and later, Husband and Father, in Search of Freedom and Personal Sunrise, in the City of New York; and of the Consummation of his Life. Faber, London 1933. First edition. 8vo. 415pp. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a tiny area of spotting to the fore edge. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good indeed dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel fold, considerably tanned at the spine panel, and with some nicking and several slivers of edge-loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. Featuring thinly disguised versions of T.E.Lawrence ('G.B.Everest' - "my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson writing in Genius of Friendship), C.R.W.Nevinson, D.H.Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T.S.Eliot, John Galsworthy, H.G.Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J.B.Priestley. Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson"). £25

Henry Williamson. The Gold Falcon; or The Haggard of Love. Faber, London 1947. The revised second edition, with a considerably rewritten text, issued here for the first time under the author’s name. 8vo. 389pp. A small crease to the head of the rear board, lightly impacting the upper margin of about a third of the leaves. A lovely bright copy in dust wrapper, lightly toned at the rear and spine panels and with just a trace of wear to the spine ends and to several corner tips. £15

Henry Williamson. The Linhay on the Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and the New World. With photographs, mostly taken by the author. Jonathan Cape, London 1934. First edition. 8vo. 314pp. Buckram with the publisher's top edge stain, which is somewhat faded. With a frontispiece and seven photographs. The buckram faded at the backstrip, and with just a touch of further fading to the board extremities. Just a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat toned, dust soiled, rubbed, nicked, torn and edgeworn. Some fifty essays, reviews, studies and other short pieces, including a section devoted to Williamson's travels in North America and passages from The Sun in the Sands which do not appear in the 1941 book of the same name. £35

Henry Williamson. Salar the Salmon. A novel. Faber, London 1935. First edition. 8vo. 319pp. Map illustrated endpapers (in a style suggestive of C.F.Tunnicliffe) and with a small title-page decoration and a closing vignette, which are both by Tunnicliffe. Top- and fore edge spotted. Cloth lightly marked in places and with just a touch of wear to the backstrip ends. A touch of spotting to occasional leaf margins. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper. £15

Henry Williamson. Salar the Salmon. A novel. With illustrations, colour plates and a dust wrapper design by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Faber, London 1936. The first and only edition with these illustrations. Tall 8vo. 324pp. Silvery-pink patterned silk over boards, lettered in silver at the spine and a silver-stamped Tunnicliffe decoration. Top edge silver-stained, others rough-trimmed. With green endpapers featuring various Tunnicliffe vignettes. Illustrated with sixteen colour plates (never reproduced in any subsequent issue), twenty-five header pieces (reproduced from the American issue of the same year), and a further twenty-three new illustrations and vignettes. The backstrip cloth fractionally discoloured, and with a tiny area of fading to the base. A speckling of very light spotting to the fore edge. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown, and a contemporary former owner gift inscription neatly inked to an unprinted preliminary leaf.  A splendidly preserved copy in very good dust wrapper featuring another original Tunnicliffe illustration, printed in blue and black. The wrapper very slightly toned at the spine panel, with a touch of light dust soiling to the unprinted rear panel, and three short edge-tears but no loss. A superior example. £375

Henry Williamson. The Illustrated Salar the Salmon. With an introduction by Richard Williamson , and a foreword and illustrations by Michael Loates. Webb & Bower, Exeter in association with Michael Joseph, London 1987. The first edition with these Michael Loates illustrations.. Small 4to. 207pp. Decorated endpapers. With a photographic frontispiece and title page decoration, sixteen full-page colour plates, fifteen further colour illustrations, mostly half-plates, and twenty black and white header and tail pieces. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £10

Henry Williamson. Devon Holiday. Jonathan Cape, London 1935. First edition (never reprinted). 8vo. 317pp. Buckram, faded at the backstrip and board extremities as is so often the case. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, price-clipped, tanned at the spine panel, and with just a tiny hint of edgewear. A light-hearted narrative links six short stories (mostly hitherto unpublished in bookform), whilst a postscript laments the sudden death of T.E.Lawrence (who appears as "G.B.Everest") and reproduces the 'last telegram'. £50

Henry Williamson. Goodbye West Country. Illustrated with thirty photographic plates, mostly taken by the author. Putnam, London 1937. First edition, first state (not the subsequent cheap issue). 8vo. 399pp. Top- and fore edge lightly speckled, with just a little toning to the free endpapers and pastedowns. Some occasional fox spotting and some minor indications of damp. A good bright copy in the correct first state pictorial dust wrapper (with three advertisements on the rear panel), quite lightly faded at the spine panel, with a little toning, soiling and edgewear. A series of memories, reflections and previously unused sketches of West Country life, arranged in the form of a diary and including a lengthy account of the author's 1935 visit to Germany and the "Reichsparteitag am Nurnberg" at which he was present. £30

Henry Williamson. Goodbye West Country. Illustrated with thirty photographic plates, mostly taken by the author. Putnam, London 1937. First edition (the cheap issue bound in a slightly different coloured cloth and with the blue-and-black printed dust wrapper). 8vo. 399pp. Edges spotted and with a little further spotting and partial browning to several preliminary and concluding leaves. Cloth at upper and lower boards quite faded. Quite a bright copy in the cheap issue pictorial dust wrapper (priced at 5s and with two advertisements on the rear panel), with some quite considerable tanning to the spine panel, and some soiling, edgewear and several small areas of loss and a little internal taped repair. £30

Henry Williamson. The Children of Shallowford. Faber, London 1939. First edition. 8vo. 292pp. With a frontispiece and sixteen photographs by the author. Edges spotted and with a little more spotting to the endpapers and several (blank) preliminary and concluding leaves. A little wear to the backstrip ends and the upper and lower board margins. Former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the front free endpaper, alongside a second former owner name A good copy, really quite crisp internally, in price-clipped and a little rubbed, faded, tanned and spotted dust wrapper with four or five tiny slivers of loss from the spine ends and corner tips. An affectionate and mostly literal account of the early years of Williamson’s growing family, based in part on a series of articles called Tales of My Children which he had contributed to Family in 1935. £20

Henry Williamson. The Children of Shallowford. Faber, London 1959. The revised second edition, extensively rewritten and rearranged with additional (revised) extracts from Goodbye West Country with several passages of new text which did not appear in the original 1939 edition. 8vo. 218pp. A tiny scattering of very light spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the top edge with a thumbnail-sized area of loss from the head of the front panel, several further tiny fractions of top edge loss and a small area of internal taped repair. £20

Henry Williamson. The Children of Shallowford. Macdonald & Jane’s, London 1978. A new edition, incorporating the revisions from the 1959 edition, and with the addition of new illustrations and a four-page afterword by Richard Williamson. 8vo. 222pp. Illustrated with twenty-two captioned photographs. In fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper. £10

Henry Williamson. The Story of a Norfolk Farm. Faber, London 1944. The fifth impression, issued three years after the original impression. 8vo. 403pp. With three-colour map-illustrated endpapers designed by C.F.Tunnicliffe and eleven black and white photographic plates taken by the author. A short tear to the head of the half-title and former owner details neatly inked to a preliminary leaf. A nice bright copy, albeit printed on very thin paperstock which is now a little brittle, housed in price-clipped dust wrapper, rubbed and chipped with a little edge-loss, and with some internal taped repair. £20

Henry Williamson. Genius of Friendship. T.E.Lawrence. Faber, London 1941. First edition. Tall 8vo. 78pp. The top edge and the front free endpaper and pastedown very lightly spotted. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and the margins of the front panel, with a single tiny fraction of loss and a strip of darkening to the head of the front panel. An account of the friendship between Williamson and Lawrence which began in the summer of 1929 when Edward Garnett sent T.E.L. a copy of Tarka the Otter to review, and lasted until May 1935 with Lawrence's fatal motorcycle accident returning home after sending a telegram to Williamson. 2,000 copies were printed. £50

Henry Williamson. As the Sun Shines.  Faber, London 1941. First edition. 8vo. 160pp. Head of upper board a little spotted. A very crisp and bright copy in dust wrapper, tanned at spine panel and very lightly rubbed at top edge. An attractive collection of previously published excerpts. An attractive collection of previously published excerpts from eighteen of Williamson's previous major publications, each one preceded by a brief note written specially for this appearance. £15

Henry Williamson and Lilias Rider Haggard. Norfolk Life. Faber, London 1943. First edition. 8vo. 209pp. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Printed on fairly cheap wartime economy paperstock yet still a very good copy in fine dust wrapper. A compilation of articles and nature-notes originally contributed pseudonymously by Lilias Rider Haggard to the Eastern Daily Press. Williamson collaborated with her as editor, adding notes and a commentary. £20

Henry Williamson. Tales of a Devon Village [and] Life in a Devon Village. Faber, London 1945. First editions of these two volumes of country tales, extracted and heavily revised from the author's earlier works The Village Book (1930) and Labouring Life (1932). Individual volumes as follows: Tales of a Devon Village (1945). First edition. 8vo. 224pp. Top edge dust soiled, and the free endpapers lightly spotted. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper, and a tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). A nice crisp copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, toned at the spine panel, and a little rubbed, chafed and spotted. Fifteen stories. Life in a Devon Village. (1945). First edition. 8vo. 288pp. Top edge lightly spotted and dust soiled. A very good copy in very slightly rubbed, soiled and spotted dust wrapper. "[The Village Book and The Labouring Life were] two books I wrote some years ago . I was never fully satisfied with them; they were a collection of varying fragments, rather than unified books. Now, after an interval of several years of hard physical work . I have set about giving each its own unity, based on what spirit of truth accompanies my life" - from the author's note. £35

Henry Williamson. The Sun in the Sands. Faber, London 1945. First edition. 8vo. 249pp. Portrait frontispiece. Top edge and endpapers a little spotted. Former owner details inked to the head of the front pastedown (and entirely obscured by the wrapper flap). Printed on slightly substandard wartime economy paperstock, yet still a very good copy in very good dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel and with a little fading to the publisher’s red spine lettering. A book partially written when Williamson was staying in Florida in 1934; sixteen years after the original publication he would re-work the text, transforming it into the third person and making it the basis for the ninth volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. £10

Henry Williamson. The Phasian Bird. Faber, London 1948. First edition - the subsequent cheap issue, without the top edge stain. 8vo. 341pp. Top edge very lightly spotted and with a hint of partial toning to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the attractive Mildred Eldridge-illustrated dust wrapper, clipped and re-priced by the publisher (this cheaper issue was retailed at '5s net' instead of the original 10s. 6d.), lightly dust soiled at the rear panel and with a little chafing to the top edge and a hint of chipping to the spine panel ends. An extended nature story involving an oriental pheasant hatched in the nest of a native British bird, set in the context of rural England during the Second World War. £10

Henry Williamson. The Phasian Bird. With illustrations by Israel Doskow. Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1950. The First American edition, the text quite heavily revised and with illustrations (a title page vignette and twenty-five line drawings) which did not appear in the English edition of 1948. 8vo. 276pp. Edges lightly spotted. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, lightly soiled and a little nicked and chafed at the edges with several short internally repaired tears. The printed dedication to the author’s friends, Holly and Mossy Hollingsworth, is here reinstated (the first UK edition was to have been dedicated to the Hollingworths, but Williamson decided to omit the tribute lest they be tarnished by his current unpopularity). £20

Henry Williamson. Scribbling Lark. Faber, London 1949. First edition. 8vo. 158pp.. A sliver of discolouration to the upper margins of the boards. A very good copy in pictorial dust wrapper, marred only by a tiny hint of spotting and rubbing. A book for children, never subsequently reprinted in any form whatsoever. £15   

Henry Williamson. A Clear Water Stream. Faber, London 1958. First edition. 8vo. 229pp. In fine state with virtually fine price-clipped dust wrapper, marred by just a trace of light tanning to the spine panel. A lovingly chronicled account of Williamson's exploring, stocking and fishing in the river adjacent to Shallowford Cottage, along with other memories of fishing in Canada in 1930, the Hebrides in 1931 and Georgia in 1934. The only new, full-length book Williamson wrote while engaged on The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. 5,000 copies were printed £15

Henry Williamson. In the Woods. St. Albert's Press, Llandeilo 1960 [i.e. 1961]. First edition, limited to 950 numbered copies (this being #112). 8vo. 54pp. Lettered stiff card wrappers, marred by a little spotting, and with some further spotting to the edges, free endpapers and to occasional leaf margins. A good, bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat fox-spotted and with some fading to the spine panel. Promotional printed flier laid-in, as called for. Also laid-in is a previous dealer invoice noting that this copy was formally from the library of Williamson’s close friend and associate Maurice Wiggin. £20

Henry Williamson. A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Complete in fifteen volumes. Macdonald, London 1951-69. First editions. 8vo. Just a trace of very light spotting to two or three top- and fore edges. A former owner bookplate to the front free endpaper of a single volume. A superb set in very good handsome pictorial James broom Lynne-designed dust wrappers, eight of which are price-clipped, with two (A Fox Under My Cloak and A Test to Destruction) very lightly toned at the spine panels, and one more (Donkey Boy) lightly rubbed and chipped at the spine panel ends. Together With an original corrected typescript leaf from A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. One foolscap leaf (verso blank). Heavily corrected by the author in three different colours of ink and a further three of felt-tip pen, with over 100 words added in holograph. We have not been able to track down these passages in A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight; perhaps because they were totally revised away (even though, strangely, Williamson has written “Copied 4 Oct 1973” boldly in the margin). But it seems to cover the period at the end of chapter nineteen of A Test to Destruction, when the victory celebrations take place in Folkestone. A super set. £1,500

Henry Williamson. Donkey Boy. Volume two of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1952. First edition. 8vo. 400pp. Some damp marking to the base of the upper and lower boards, but with no internal signs. The fore- and bottom edge very lightly spotted. A touch of very faint partial toning to the free endpapers and a small area of surface abrasion to the rear pastedown. A good copy in dust wrapper, lightly spotted and dust soiled, and nicked at the upper edge with a little loss. £50

Henry Williamson. Donkey Boy. Volume two of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1952 [i.e. circa 1970]. A re-issue of the first edition, printed from the original sheets but with a new casing, dated 1952 but clearly much later. 8vo. 400pp. A touch of spotting to edges and preliminary leaves. Very good in very good dust wrapper with a somewhat garish and unsympathetic design. The Golden Virgin was also re-issued at about the same time in a uniform dust wrapper. £20

Henry Williamson. Young Phillip Maddison. Volume three of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1953. First edition. 8vo. 416pp. Several tiny pinpricks of spotting to the top edge and a short crease to the tip of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in very good James Broom Lynne-designed pictorial dust wrapper, price-clipped with new price inked to the base of the front flap, with just a touch of wear to the spine ends and corner tips. £75

Henry Williamson. A Fox Under my Cloak. Volume five of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1955. First edition. 8vo. viii, 415pp. Edges lightly spotted, and with a little further browning and spotting to the free endpapers. Spine ends very lightly rubbed and the cloth just fractionally marked in one or two places. A very good copy in pictorial dust wrapper designed by James Broom-Lynne, nicked with a little loss to the spine panel ends and some careful internal reinforcement and restoration, and just a tiny hint of dust soiling to the rear panel. £100

Henry Williamson. A Fox Under My Cloak. Volume five of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Chivers Press, Bath / The Library Association, [London], 1983. A reprint of the first edition, issued on behalf of The Library Association by Chivers Press in their A New Portway Book series. 8vo. viii, 415pp. A touch of toning to the leaf margins. A very good copy in dust wrapper, marred only by a hint of fading to the publisher’s red spine panel colouring. The second casebound edition of the most desirable volume of Williamson’s fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight sequence. £30

Henry Williamson. The Golden Virgin. Volume six of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1957. First edition. 8vo. viii, 448pp. Binding very slightly cocked, and with a trace of spotting to the edges and very light partial toning to the free endpapers. A nice crisp copy in pictorial dust wrapper, with a hint of dust soiling to the rear panel and a single tiny closed tear. No price printed to the base of the front flap (and so presumably produced for export purposes). £25

Henry Williamson. Love and the Loveless. A Soldier’s Tale. Volume seven of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1984. A reprint of the first edition, issued by Macdonald as part of a uniform re-issue of the first edition text. This copy is from the library of Douglas Jordan, who as a seventeen-year-old was employed by Williamson at Old Hall Farm and proved to be an exceptional cowman. Jordan was known affectionately as ‘Lump’ to the family and appeared in the Chronicle novels as “Ackers”.  He has inked his name “Douglas (Ackers) Jordan of the Norfolk Farm” to the head of the front free endpaper. Williamson re-met Jordan in the early 1970s, some thirty years after originally hiring him, whilst filming scenes for David Cobham’s film The Vanishing Hedgerows and penned a brief but glowing diary entry about the reunion. 8vo. viii, 384pp. The merest hint of tanning to the leaf margins, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, clipped and re-priced by the publisher, and with just a touch of fading to the spine panel colouring. A nice association copy. £25

“The memories we treasure of Henry and his Norfolk Farm we hold dearly to our hearts and when someone mentions Henry Williamson we say with pride, yes I worked with him on his Norfolk farm” – Douglas Jordan, writing in the Henry Williamson Society Journal.

Henry Williamson. A Test to Destruction. Volume eight of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1960. First edition. 8vo. viii, 464pp. A trace of near-invisible toning to the free endpapers. A virtually fine copy in very good dust wrapper, with some fading to the publisher’s red spine panel lettering as is often the case, several tiny areas of miniscule edgewear, a little toning, and some lifting and minor chipping to the publisher’s laminate. A superior example. £75

Henry Williamson. It Was The Nightingale. Volume ten of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1962. First edition. 8vo. viii, 360pp. Top edge spotted Very good indeed in fractionally rubbed dust wrapper with no price printed to the front flap. £15

Henry Williamson. The Power of the Dead. Volume eleven of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1963. First edition. 8vo. 365pp + [iii] series advertisements. Top- and fore edge spotted, and with just a touch of bruising to the head of the backstrip. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little corresponding creasing to the head of the spine panel. £20

Henry Williamson. The Phoenix Generation. Volume twelve of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1965. First edition. 8vo. 384pp + iv publisher's advertisements for previous volumes in the Chronicle. Top- and fore edge very lightly spotted. A virtually fine copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly toned at the spine panel and with just a touch of light marginal spotting. £20

Henry Williamson. A Solitary War. Volume thirteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1966. First edition. 8vo. 374pp + iv adverts for The Chronicle. A tiny hint of spotting to the top- and fore edge, else a fine copy in lightly soiled dust wrapper, with the publisher’s new price sticker over the existing printed price. £15

Henry Williamson. Lucifer Before Sunrise. Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1967. First edition. 8vo. 515pp + [iv] publisher's catalogue. The top edge just fractionally spotted, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, with some light discolouration to the publisher’s orange spine panel colouring, as is invariably the case, and just a touch of dust soiling to the rear panel. £15

Henry Williamson. The Gale of the World. The fifteenth and final volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Macdonald, London 1969. First edition, second state (the first state was recalled and pulped following a series of mishaps). 8vo. 368pp. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at two or three extremities and with a touch of toning to the predominantly white rear panel. £45

Henry Williamson. The Scandaroon. With illustrations by Ken Lilly. Macdonald, London 1972. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #241). 8vo. 152pp. Dark blue rexine. With head and tail bands and a ribbon place marker. All edges gilt. A hint of wear to one or two extremities, else a fine copy in split and defective slipcase (no dust wrapper called for). £50

Henry Williamson. The Scandaroon. A novel. With illustrations by Ken Lilly. Macdonald, London 1972. First edition. 8vo. 152pp. With a title page decoration, seventeen chapter header illustrations and one further double-spread illustration. A little occasional marginal blemishing. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper. The author’s final book. £7.50

Henry Williamson. Green Fields and Pavements. A Norfolk Farmer in Wartime. With illustrations by Michael Loates. The Henry Williamson Society, Longstanton 1995. First edition. 8vo 165pp. Top edge lightly spotted, else in fine state with fine dust wrapper. Forty-eight articles Williamson penned for The Eastern Daily Press between 1941-44; collected here to mark the centenary of his birth. £20

James Farrar. The Unreturning Spring. Being the Poems, Sketches, Stories and Letters of James Farrar. Edited and with an introduction by Henry Williamson. Williams & Norgate Ltd., London 1950. First edition. 8vo. 241pp. With a portrait frontispiece. Cloth a little discoloured at board extremities and top edge lightly dust marked and with a touch of light fox-spotting to several preliminary leaves. A very good, bright copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a trace of the usual spine panel tanning, and a touch of chafing to the spine ends. Contemporary former owner details all but erased from the front free endpaper. Stories, poems and letters of a young airman killed in action in 1944. "Had he lived, what books James Farrar would have written! He is an authentic voice of those who fell in the war, and of those who survived" - from Williamson's introduction. £75

Olive Hawks. What Hope for Green Street? Jarrolds [1946]. Second impression of Hawk’s debut novel, written during her internment at Holloway Prison. This copy signed by the author on the title page and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 128pp. Cloth just a little marked in places, and lightly chafed at several extremities. A single short repaired tear to the margin of one leaf. A very good, bright copy, albeit printed on cheap wartime paper-stock. No dust wrapper. Hawks’ novel was anonymously re-written prior to publication by Henry Williamson (in a letter dated 26 August 1945 to his long-time friend and subsequent biographer Lois Lamplugh, Williamson states “I rewrote a book for someone recently, it comes out soon with Jarrolds, called What Hope for Green Street? After that, the first-author (whose work was jejune and only partly readable) must dree her own weird. I’ll give no more advice.”).  The full extent of Williamson’s rewrite is not possible to determine. The dust wrapper for Hawks’ fourth novel, A Sparrow for a Farthing (1950), notes that Hawks’ debut “was discovered and launched by Henry Williamson” and Hawks was clearly thankful for his assistance, dedicating her second novel, Time is my Debtor (1947), “Gratefully to Henry Williamson”. Despite this we have found no evidence that the two knew each other or ever met, despite both being born and brought up in the same area of South East London, and both being members of the British Union of Fascists. An exceptionally scarce book (we have only ever handled a single copy previously), and even more so with the author’s signature. £250

Olive Hawks (1917-1992) was a leading woman member of the British Union of Fascists. She became the party's Women's Organiser in Lewisham in 1934, appointed the prospective parliamentary candidate for Camberwell in 1937 and its national Chief Woman's Organiser by 1940. She was interned for four years as a Nazi sympathiser in 1940 and it was during this period that she wrote her first novel. It appears that she abandoned her Fascist sympathies after the war, publishing three further novels and a play before emigrating with her second husband and two sons. 

John Heygate. Decent Fellows. A novel. Mundanus Ltd., London 1930. First edition - the casebound issue, considerably more uncommon than the usual card wrapper issue. 8vo. 317pp. Cloth a little marked and soiled, with some bruising to the backstrip ends. Some tanning to the leaf margins and with a minor slant to the binding. Former owner name pencilled to the head of the front free endpaper. A good copy of the author’s first book, a scathing attack on his alma mater, Eton College, and dedicated to (and some say partly written by) Henry Williamson (who provided an introduction to the US edition published the following year). Affixed to the front free endpaper is a newspaper clipping: “Sir, I have read your reviewer’s annihilating notice of Decent Fellows with great relish. Once only, I regret to say, when I was captain of the house at which he boarded, I had the good fortune, with ample justification, to beat the author of this deplorable book. His offence then, as now, was throwing mud, or stones, at something deserving of respect”. £150

Richard Jefferies. Selections of his Work, with details of his Life and Circumstance, his Death and Immortality. Faber, London 1937. First edition. 8vo. 422pp. Illustrated with eight photographic plates. Some spotting to endpapers and several preliminary leaves. A nice, bright if slightly dusty copy in dust wrapper, tanned at spine panel, a little dusty, rubbed at spine ends with several tiny areas of loss and with a tear to the rear panel. Former owner name neatly inked to front endpaper, alongside a handsome former owner bookplate, and with a tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown. £30

Extended passages from Jefferies’ work, with a general introduction in two parts: The English Genius and To the Two Types of Jefferies Readers, introductions to each section, notes on the text, and the Epigraph. 

Richard Jefferies. Hodge and his Masters. Edited, with revisions and a foreword by Henry Williamson, with illustrations and photographs. Methuen, London 1937. A new edition, extensively re-written by Henry Williamson. 8vo. With eight half-tone plates. A very good, bright copy, with just the faint shadow of former owner pencil markings to front endpaper. Title page fractionally fox-spotted. In attractive pictorial dust wrapper, rubbed at some extremities and with a fraction of loss to head of spine panel. £30

Richard Jefferies. Hodge and His Masters. Edited and with an introduction by Henry Williamson. Faber, London 1946. A new issue of Williamson’s 1937 edit, with a new introduction (comprising rearranged passages from the original foreword combined with new text) plus some further fairly minimal structural revisions. 8vo. 340pp. Top edge very lightly spotted. A very crisp copy in tanned dust wrapper, price-clipped and with a little loss to spine panel ends. Former owner name neatly inked to front endpaper. Williamson’s extensive revision of Jefferies novel (here sub-titled A Classic of English Farming) was not met with unanimous praise: chapters are moved around or omitted entirely, others are combined and most of the headings are altered (more so in this 1946 edition). £10

Henry Williamson contributes his story The Confessions of a Fake Merchant to the anthology The Book of Fleet Street. Edited by T.Michael Pope. Cassell, London 1930. First edition. 8vo. xii, 306pp. With a frontispiece reproducing a painting by C.R.W.Nevinson and seven plates of illustrations by various artists. Top edge dust soiled, and the cloth lightly marked, rubbed and faded, with some further fading to the backstrip. A touch of light spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional leaf margins. A good copy. No dust wrapper. Memoirs of the journalistic profession from around the world, as recollected by Williamson, Arthur Machen, Alec Waugh, Vernon Bartlett, J.B.Morton, D.B.Wyndham Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, H.M.Tomlinson, Martin Armstrong, Gerald Bullett, Caradoc Evans, J.B.Priestley, Edward Shanks, J.C.Squire, G.B.Stern &c. £10

Henry Williamson contributes a four-page introduction to Sir E.John Russell’s English Farming. Collins, ‘Britain in Pictures’ series, London 1941. First edition. Small 4to. 47pp. Paper-covered boards. With twelve colour plates, and various monochrome reproductions in the text. Several preliminary leaves lightly spotted. A small area of creasing to the base of the front free endpaper and a short slit to the front hinge.  A nice bright copy in very lightly toned and spotted price-clipped dust wrapper with just a touch of chafing to two or three extremities. £10

Henry Williamson & Lilias Rider Haggard. Norfolk Life. Faber, London 1943. First edition. 8vo. 209pp. A nice crisp copy, albeit printed on fairly cheap wartime paperstock which is now a little tanned. Housed in a nice, bright dust wrapper, just a little rubbed and chipped at spine ends and with some tanning to spine panel. Bookplate to front endpaper. A compilation of articles and nature-notes originally contributed pseudonymously by Lilias Rider Haggard to the Eastern Daily Press. Williamson collaborated with her as editor, adding notes and a commentary. £15

Henry Williamson contributes A Devon Stream to the anthology Countryside Mood. Edited and with an introduction by Richard Harman, and illustrated with photographs and with wood engravings by Joan Rickarby. The Blandford Press, London [1943]. First edition. 8vo. 208pp. Free endpapers lightly spotted. A very good copy in lightly tanned and dust marked dust wrapper, chafed at the head of the spine panel and with a single tiny area of loss. Williamson’s nine-page story is a redrafted version of a piece which originally appeared in a June 1943 issue of Strand under the title The Story of a Devon Stream. Other contributors include Adrian Bell, H.J.Massingham, Frances Pitt &c. £10

Henry Williamson contributes The Winter of 1941 to The Pleasure Ground. A Miscellany of English Writing. Edited by Malcolm Elwin and illustrated with photographs. Macdonald, London 1947. First edition. 8vo. 297pp. A very good copy in slightly rubbed and chafed dust wrapper. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the head of the front free endpaper. The first appearance in print of Williamson’s nineteen-page story, which was subsequently collected in the Henry Williamson Society publication Indian Summer Notebook (2001). Other contributors include T.F. and Llewelyn Powys, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Denys Val Baker, Louis Marlow, John Middleton Murry, J.C.Trewin, Henry Treece &c. £10

Henry Williamson contributes his essay Some Nature Writers and Civilization to the anthology Essays by Divers Hands. Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. New Series, Vol. XXX. Edited and with an introduction by N.Hardy Wallis. Oxford University Press, London 1960. First edition. 8vo. 159pp. Spine a little discoloured. Endpapers browned and lightly spotted. A nice crisp copy in dust wrapper, chipped at the upper edge and quite sunned at the spine panel. This is the first printing of Williamson’s essay, which was originally given at the 1958 Wedmore Memorial lecture. This issue also includes the Earl of Birkenhead on Kipling and the Vermont Feud and Sir Sidney Roberts of Max Beerbohm. £10

Henry Williamson contributes Out of the Prisoning Tower to the anthology John Bull’s Schooldays. Edited by Brian Inglis. Hutchinson, London 1961. First edition. 8vo. 160pp. With endpaper illustrations and a dust wrapper design by Quentin Blake. A small area of chafing to the front hinge. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat chafed and edgeworn, with several small areas of edge loss and a sliver of surface abrasion. An anthology of school days reminiscences, reproduced from the pages of Spectator (Williamson’s piece had originally appeared in a 1958 issue). Other contributors include Kingsley Amis, Jocelyn Brooke, William Golding, Simon Raven, Kenneth Allsop, Philip Toynbee, Angus Wilson, Peter Fleming &c. £10

Henry Williamson contributes his essay, A First Adventure with Francis Thompson, to Francis Thompson’s The Mistress of Vision. With a commentary by the Rev. John O'Connor, and a preface by Father Vincent McNabb. Now reprinted with an introduction by Joseph Jerome [i.e. Brocard Sewell] and Williamson’s essay. Saint Albert's Press, Aylesford 1966. First edition thus, issued to celebrate 75th anniversary of the publication of The Hound of Heaven and limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #13). Tall 8vo. xix + 23pp. Full blue buckram. A couple of small spotting blemished to the edges and to two or three preliminary leaves. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper called for, but with the original unprinted tissue protector, somewhat torn and defective at the spine. £20

Henry Williamson. My Favourite Country Stories. Selected, edited and introduced by Henry Williamson. Lutterworth Press, London 1966. First edition. 8vo. 143pp. A tiny hint of spotting to the top edge, and the the margins of the free endpapers and half-title. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly chafed at the spine ends and corner tips with two tiny closed tears. Includes contributions from Richard Jefferies, Alison Uttley, W.H.Hudson, James Farrar, H.M.Tomlinson, Flora Thompson, Richard Calvert Williamson, Ruth Tomalin, H.Plunket Greene, the Earl of Bessborough and Thomas Hardy. £10

Anthology. Henry Williamson, the Man, the Writings. A Symposium. Tabb House, Padstow 1980. First edition – this copy inscribed by contributor David Hoyle thus: “To Stephen [Francis Clarke], from one-thirteenth of the author – David. Love – 10/5/80.” 8vo. 165pp. With a portrait frontispiece drawing and eight photographs. Includes contributions by Brocard Sewell, David Hoyle and Diana Mosley, short memoirs by Alexandra Burgess and Kerstin Hegarty (two of Williamson's former secretaries), together with a reprint of the address given at Williamson's memorial service by Ted Hughes. A touch of light spotting to the fore edge, else a fine copy in fractionally dust soiled dust wrapper. £25

H.Beardwood. The History of Colfe’s Grammar School 1862-1972. Edited by H.Beardwood (then headmaster). Christchurch Times Ltd., Hampshire 1972. The revised and updated third edition. 8vo. viii, 192pp. With a frontispiece and thirty-eight photographs. Top- and fore edge lightly spotted, and with a little marginal spotting to two or three text leaves. A very good copy. A history of Henry Williamson’s alma mater (Williamson is not mentioned in the text). £15

Sue Caron. A Glimpse of Ancient Sunlight. Memories of Henry Williamson. With a foreword and notes by Brocard Sewell. The Aylesford Press, Wirral 1986. First edition, one of 400 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 460). Slim 8vo. 34pp. Stiff card wrappers. With a portrait frontispiece and one photograph. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. £30

Daniel Farson. Henry. An Appreciation of Henry Williamson. Michael Joseph, London 1982. First edition. 8vo. 246pp. Illustrated with nineteen photographs and reproductions. Top edge lightly spotted. A very crisp copy in dust wrapper, rear wrapper flap lightly spotted. £10

I.Waveney Girvan. A Bibliography and a Critical Survey of the Works of Henry Williamson. Compiled by I.Waveney Girvan. Together with Authentic Bibliographical Annotations by Another Hand [i.e. Henry Williamson]. The Alcuin Press, Gloucestershire 1931. First edition, limited to 420 copies. 8vo. 56pp. Two-tone decorated holland-backed cloth boards with a tanned and chipped paper spine label, and a replacement tipped-in. Board extremities a little darkened and with a single inked annotation in the text. Very good. £75

Lois Lamplugh. A Shadowed Man: Henry Williamson 1895–1977. With a foreword by Richard Williamson. Wellspring, Devon 1990. First edition. 8vo. 190pp. Card wrappers (not issued in casebound format until the second edition of the following year). Illustrated with photographs and manuscript reproductions. Top- and fore edges lightly spotted and with a very light readership crease to the spine. A very good copy. A pre-publication promotional slip is laid-in, inscribed by the author. £15

Lois Lamplugh. A Shadowed Man: Henry Williamson 1895–1977. With a foreword by Richard Williamson. The Exmoor Press, Somerset 1991. The revised second edition, and the first casebound issue. 8vo. 2020pp. Illustrated with eighteen photographs, none of which appeared in the first edition. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £10

S.P.B.Mais. Orange Street. A novel. Grant Richards Ltd., London 1926. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “J.W.Lister, Librarian of Home Library. A slight token of respect in return for an act of amazing kindness to a total stranger. D.d. S.P.B.Mais, May 1926”. 8vo. 406pp. Publisher’s disclaimer slip tipped to the head of the first text leaf, as issued. Backstrip ends very gently bruised, and the top- and fore edge lightly spotted. Some fox-spotting throughout. A very good copy of the author’s uncommon fourth novel. No dust wrapper. £125

Mais’ novel includes a thinly-veiled portrait of his old friend Henry Williamson, who appears as ‘Brian Stucley’, a poet living in North Devon and shares characteristics not dissimilar from some that Williamson’s friends found so lamentable in himself.  Nearly a decade later Williamson responded in kind, depicting Mais as ‘Masterson Funicular Hengist Zeale’ (“…the only man in England who, having written nearly a hundred books, still has an adolescent enthusiasm for literature”) in his 1935 novel ‘Devon Holiday’: an altogether less unkind portrait.

Hugoe Matthews. Henry Williamson. A Bibliography. Halsgrove, Tiverton 2004. First edition, never reprinted. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 232pp. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £30

Hugoe Matthews. Henry Williamson. A Bibliography. Halsgrove, Tiverton 2004. First edition. 8vo. 232pp. A tiny trace of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Matthews' scholarly and exhaustive bibliography of Williamson, covering every book publication in extensive detail and with appendices for books edited by and with contributions by Williamson; periodical contributions; and selected works about Williamson. Masterful, and utterly essential for the collector. £15

John Middleton Murry. Katherine Mansfield and Other Literary Studies. With a foreword by T.S.Eliot. Constable, London 1959. First edition. 8vo. xiii, 162pp. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown, a trace of very light toning to the front free endpaper alongside a tiny sliver of tape residue marking. A virtually fine copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and at several margins of the front and rear panels. Eliot’s six-page foreword precedes lengthy essays on George Gissing, Katherine Mansfield and The Novels of Henry Williamson. £10

Periodical. A Special Henry Williamson issue of the periodical The Aylesford Review. Vol. II, No. 2, winter 1957-58. 8vo. 68pp. Stapled card wrappers, very lightly spotted, the staples rusted. A very good copy. Includes contributions by W.Gore Allen (Williamson: The London Novels), Malcolm Elwin (Henry Williamson: An English Proust), John Middleton Murry (The Novels of Henry Williamson), and Williamson’s own original essay Some Notes on ‘The Flax of Dream’ and ‘A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight’. Laid-in is a hand-written letter from the editor Brocard Sewell, briefly mentioning Williamson’s novel A Solitary War (“And it seems to have been very well received in spite of the challenging dedication to Oswald & Diane Mosley”), plus a second unsigned typewritten letter from Sewell concerning the 1969 Aylesford Review Whitsun Literary and Social Weekend (this last seemingly distributed to all subscribers). £25

Brocard Sewell contributes a five-page essay Henry Williamson’s ‘A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight’ to an issue of the periodical Lodestar. No. 2, spring 1986. Slim 8vo. 23pp. Stapled card wrappers. A hint of fading to the wrappers, else a fine copy. A critical analysis of Williamson’ fifteen volume novel sequence A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Uncommon. £15

Herbert Faulkner West. The Dreamer of Devon. An essay of Henry Williamson. The Ulysses Press, London 1932. First edition – limited to just 250 copies. 35pp. Paper-covered cloth. With a portrait frontispiece. Cloth lightly worn at head of spine panel and extremities of boards lightly sunned. Internally in fine state. £100

Maurice Wiggin.  Faces at the Window. Nelson, London 1972. First edition. 8vo. 193pp. Top edge lightly spotted, else in fine state with slightly dust soiled price-clipped dust wrapper, with two short closed tears to the top edge and several lengthy creases to front wrapper flap. A collection of reminiscences of influential friends and acquaintances by the celebrated Sunday Times columnist, including chapters on Henry Williamson (“my most distinguished friend, the only friend I have who is indisputably a genius”) and Siegfried Sassoon. £10

Alexandra Wigginton contributes an eight-page recollection of an afternoon spent with Henry Williamson to Frederick Rolfe and Others. A Miscellany of Essays. St. Albert's Press, Aylesford 1961. First edition, limited to 450 numbered copies, 400 of which were for sale (this being #165). Slim 8vo. 39pp. Card wrappers, fractionally spotted and with just a hint of occasional rubbing to the yapped edges. A very good copy of an uncommon item, not noted by Matthews. Also includes the first printing of Rolfe's A Fragment of a Hitherto Unpublished Theological Discourse and other essays on John Gray, Ronald Firbank, André Raffalovich and Frederick Baron Corvo. £50

Anne Williamson. Henry Williamson. Tarka and the Last Romantic. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud 1995. The corrected second edition, issued the same year as the first edition. 8vo. xiv, 368pp. With a portrait frontispiece of Williamson by C.F.Tunnicliffe, and various photographs, maps and reproductions. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £10

Anne Williamson. A Patriot's Progress. Henry Williamson and the First World War. Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud 1998. First edition. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. 8vo. xv, 208pp. With a frontispiece reproduction of a drawing by C.R.W.Nevinson, fifty-two photographs and reproductions, and four maps. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £20

Anne Williamson. A Patriot's Progress. Henry Williamson and the First World War. Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire 1998. First edition. 8vo. 208pp. With a frontispiece reproduction of a drawing by C.R.W.Nevinson, fifty-two photographs and reproductions, and four maps. A tiny trace of near-invisible spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £15

Henry Williamson (interest). Tarka Country. A forty-four page 'Green Guide' to the Devon of Williamson's Tarka the Otter produced by the Tarka Country Tourism Association. Tarka Country Tourism Association [no date]. Stapled card wrappers. With a double-spread colour map and various illustrations, plus a number of commercial adverts. A short crease to the tip of the upper wrapper, else in fine state. £5

Peter Lewis. The Henry Williamson Society. The First Thirty Years May 1980 – May 2010. A Condensed History. [Compiled by Peter Lewis]. [No publisher 2010]. Seventy-three A4 sheets, printed on both sides and bound into plastic covers. Illustrated with photographs and various reproductions of drawings by Peter Rothwell and others. With a foreword by Will Harris, loosely inserted as issued, plus a covering letter from the author and a separate errata leaf. A very good copy of this ‘amateur history’. The author is not noted, but this labour of love was produced by long standing Henry Williamson Society member Peter Lewis, created manually on a typewriter with copies reproduced only for his close friends within the Society (my understanding is that probably no more than ten were produced). £75

R.W.Thompson. Home in Ham. With drawings by Gay Thomas. Arrowsmith, Bristol 1938. First edition (never reprinted) – this copy inscribed by the author on the title page to an un-named recipient. 8vo. 240pp. With map-illustrated endpapers and various plates and illustrations in the text. Cloth a little marked and chafed at extremities, with a five millimetre nick to the base of the upper board and a little resulting creasing. An area of miscellaneous staining to the top edge, encroaching just a fraction of upper margins of occasional text leaves, and some very light sporadic fox-spotting and margin soiled. Quite a nice crisp copy of an uncommon book in the uncommon pictorial dust wrapper, a little tanned and spotted with an inch of loss from the head of the spine panel and a fraction or two more from various extremities. A delightful portrayal of the North Devon Village of Georgeham (‘Ham’) – albeit with no direct Williamson references. £50

Henry Williamson (interest). An original typed signed letter from Clive Holloway, publisher of the forthcoming ‘newly illustrated edition’ of Williamson’s The Story of a Norfolk Farm, offering the book at a generous discount of Henry Williamson Society members, and enclosing a sample of the dust wrapper. £15