JEFFERIES, Richard Amaryllis at the fair. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. 1887.
8vo. Original green cloth with yellow flower design, spine with gilt lettering; pp. 260; a little rubbing to extremities, occasional foxing, very good.
First edition. Jefferies's last book, dictated to his wife as he lay dying, is not so much a traditional novel as a gathering of impressions and thoughts based around life on a debt-ridden farm, with meditations on ale, fence-building, getting old and the landscape mingling in the consciousness of young Amaryllis.
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