Country World: Memories of Childhood by: Alison Uttley
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 171 pages. The author relates her experiences growing up in the Derbyshire countryside of central England during the late nineteenth century. Her `country' books, beginning with The Country Child and continuing with series of essays on country themes, such as Country Hoard were extremely popular, due to her uncanny ability to remember the smallest details of her Derbyshire childhood and express them with beautiful poeticism. This volume collects a number of her best essays. B&w illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Previous owner's notation on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
