Bevis; The Story of a Boy EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 850 by Jefferies, Richard - 1930

London: J. M Dent & Sons Ltd., 1930. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. FIRST EDITION EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 850, MAP ILLUSTRATION OF THE BEVIS COUNTRY. Introduction by Guy N. Pocock. Very good blue cloth. Gilt titles and shield decoration. Some edge wear, soiling, slight fading, previous owner name inside, no jacket. (1930), 12mo, xviii, 430pp. Temple Press, 2/1//N Seymour. "As a boy Jefferies had a hiding-place in the attic of his father's farmhouse in Wiltshire. 'There, after his boyhood was over,' writes Henry Williamson, 'he wrote some of his wonderful books. The farmhouse and its fields and stream, its woods and, above all, the great lake, became the scenes of one of the finest boys' stories in the English language; Bevis.'" RG4