The Poacher

The Macmillan Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Vintage Hardcover with DJ, First Edition 1935 Macmillan 273 pages. Very Good in a Good DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear and fading to green cloth boards with gilt titles on black panels - corners lightly bumped. Major shelf/edge wear and chipping to original clipped DJ - now in mylar. Previous owner name at top of FFEP. NOTE: The picture in Amazon is NOT the First American Edition it is for the Jonathon Cape First Edition (British) which is identified at the bottom of the spine. My copy is the First American Edition from Macmillan. Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE is widely recognised as one of the finest short story writers of his generation, with more than 20 story collections published in his lifetime. Many of his stories depict life in the rural Midlands of England, particularly his native Northamptonshire. Splendid novel, the fifth from the pen of H.E. Bates, which relates the life of Luke Bishop from about 1880, when he is about 20 years old, to some time after the end of World War I. The theme of the novel is the imprisonment of the body and spirit by factories, mechanical power, and the suffocating blanket of middle-class respectability. An outstanding novel in the rural tradition. Handsome copy in a respectable DJ. LOC SSE-06