The wet flanders plain

Norwich, Norfolk: Gliddon Books, 1987. xx, [2], 13-182pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the photographic dust wrapper. With eight photographic illustrations. A little spotting to the wrapper, otherwise clean. With the initials of Williamson's son Richard (RLCW) on the title page. From the family library of Henry Williamson. The Wet Flanders Plain records Williamson's two pilgrimages back to the north of France in the 1920s, after his experiences fighting on the Western Front. First published in June 1929. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition. Matthews A11 1897.. First Gliddon Books edition. 8vo.