8vo. 117pp [3], including two pages of publisher's advertising. Original publisher's tan cloth boards stamped in (now faded) gilt, with the tan dustwrapper printed in black. Minor shelf-wear, chipping to edges, browned to spine with some further marks. Henry Inscribed by the translator to FFEP 'With every good wish to Henry Williamson from Cyrus Brooks'. A short annotation in Williamson's hand compares the final line of the novel to the Anglican marriage blessing 'whom God hast joined, let any man try to part asunder!'

Inscribed by the translator Cyrus Brooks (1890-1951) to Henry Williamson, whose positive review of the novel appears on the front of the dustwrapper, comparing author Leonhard Frank (1882-1961) to German writer Arnold Zweig (1887-1968) in his novel Sergeant Grischa.

From the family library of Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside. Now predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize, his wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably. He spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition.