1st ed. "Philip Oakes's evocation of the years immediately before the Second World War is poignant, and he is uniquely valuable because he happens to have been raised in a part of England too often neglected by literature." Pp. 185. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w price-clipped. VG/G+.

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