How Green was My Valley (Signed 1940 edition)
Signed and dedicated by Richard Llewellyn, with a photograph of the signing
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Printing Details
First edition, ninth impression. Hardback, bound in burgundy cloth with sliver titling to spine. 20.5 × 13cm, 651pp + 1pp guide to pronunciation of Welsh names.
This copy has been signed and dedicated by Richard Llewellyn to the title page, "To My Friend Lettie Robson, with felicitations, Richard Llewellyn, April, 1940". Additionally, there is a postcard photograph loosely inserted which shows Richard Llewellyn signing the book, presumably to Lettie, with 1940 in pencil to the back.
Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons—at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. Looking back on the hardships of his early life, where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939, How Green Was My Valley quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Poetic and nostalgic, it is an elegy to a lost world.
Condition
Fair to good, but scarce to be signed and dedicated by Llewellyn. The cloth is rubbed to the joints and spine ends, and faded to the spine. The pages are clean bar a little age-toning, the inner binding secure but the half-title page is starting to work loose (though still attached). The book remains in strong readable condition, a bit bruised but a scarce copy.
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Price
£135.00
