8vo. 137pp, with 9 original full colour lithographs. Original publisher's pale cloth boards lettered in brown, with the unclipped green decorative dust wrapper. Internally bright and clean. Corners bumped, spine a trifle cocked, wrapper slightly worn and marked. Inscribed to Henry Williamson from the author on the half-title. A.LS. from the author to Williamson loosely inserted.

Lois Lamplugh (1921-2013) was born in Georgeham, North Devon. Henry Williamson was well known to her parents, Aubrey and Ruth Lamplugh, who feature as Georgie and Boo Pole-Cripps in vol. 10 of the Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series, It was the Nightingale. While not an altogether positive portrayal, Lois confirms the parallels in her unauthorised biography of Williamson, published in 1990, A Shadowed Man: Henry Williamson, 1895-1977.

A prolific novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, Henry Williamson 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.