The Lone Swallows.
£350.00 GBP • Used
The second edition in the publisher’s New World Series, for schools. Original cloth, Very Good but a little rubbed. “The first change was fairly straightforward: Collins' undated editi...
The second edition in the publisher’s New World Series, for schools. Original cloth, Very Good but a little rubbed. “The first change was fairly straightforward: Collins' undated edition (but 1924), in their 'The New World Series', omitted ‘The Outlaw’ (The Lone Swallows, 1922, pp. 116-129), the supposed fake story of the peregrine falcon at St Paul’s Cathedral (it was never reprinted), and ‘The Change’ (but this returned in later editions). HW marks his cutting of ‘Peregrine Falcons in London’, pasted into the RJ Journal, as ‘Fake’, but somewhere he repudiates this ‘false’ story, so one doesn’t know what to believe! Today, when peregrines regularly nest on cathedrals and high-rise buildings, I think we could certainly easily accept it as a ‘true’ story. This small, pocket-sized edition was intended for use in schools, as HW noted in his own copy of the edition.” see Henry Williamson Society website. This is the author’s copy with his note [see above] “Author’s Copy. Reprint for Schools, 2/6, Published Summer 1924.” From the library of Henry Williamson, with a book ticket bearing his owl device.
Product Info
Publisher: W. Collins Sons & Co., [1924]
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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