Bell, Adrian — Apple Acre

Brockhampton Press 1964 1st illustrated edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/VG. 192pp, b/w frontis & illustrations by Richard Kennedy, gift inscription to the endpaper, price clipped dustjacket a little rubbed along the edges, an attractive copy. Originally published in 1942, the book tells of a year farming on Bell's Suffolk smallholding. This illustrated edition was revised textually by Bell & has a new foreword as well as passages which were not in the original edition.