THE GOLDEN ORIOLE: FIVE NOVELLAS

by Bates

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Michael Joseph, 1962 . Octavo, 204 pp., boards. First edition. Stories of rural English life varying in mood but all marked by the author's famed lightness and sureness of touch. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. Very mild bumps to lower front corner tips, a fine copy in very good dust jacket with mild wear at top of spine panel and several small internal tape mends to same, and a bit of dust

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