HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Gainsborough Books.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Monochrome portrait to dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £7.95. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, seems unread. No tanning. FINE.* Illustrations: 18pp. b/w photos within text.* Pages: 184 pp. text. viii pp. Index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The detailed and fascinating story of a life which started in a Victorian country parsonage and graduated through Marlborough college, Queens College Cambridge, Sherborne and Cheltenham thence to service with the Essex Regiment throughout the first World War. He joined Bedales after the war as a teacher of English and when he left, after 25 years, he went on to be the director of the speech and drama course at the Royal Academy of Music. In this volume he describes his life with sparkling humour and unfailing perception, and his entertaining autobiography is a paragon of the art he holds so dear, the art of communication..* A FINE copy with no major faults.*

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LAURIE LEE was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee died in May 1997. In its obituary the Guardian wrote, "He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precisions".

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1826
Title: Journey in My Head: Autobiography
Author: Crump, Geoffrey Herbert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/F/F
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0950774901
ISBN 13: 9780950774909
Publisher: Gainsborough Books
Place of Publication: Salisbury. Wilts. UK 189
This edition first published: 1981

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