8vo. 96pp, [8]. Original publisher's decorated paper of rifles and ploughshares over quarter buckram, designed by Randolph Schwabe along with the title page. Title lettered in gilt. Bottom and fore-edge uncut, though a little foxed. Wear to all edges, minor bumping to corners, with a few marks and darkening to the spine. Internally bright and clean. Numbered '146' of 400. From the recently dispersed Williamson family library, without indication of such.

The Wet Flanders Plain records Williamson's two pilgrimages back to the north of France in the 1920s, after his experiences fighting on the Western Front. First published by the Beaumont Press in an edition of 400 copies. 80 quarter bound in vellum (with the first five not for sale), the remaining copies, as here, bound in quarter buckram imitating the same design, published June 1929.

Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is 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.