Where Kingcups Grew: Stories of a Westcountry Childhood

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: Broadcast Books* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated laminated cover. Corners slightly bumped and with slight shelf wear. VG* Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket as issued.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations, FINE* Illustrations: B/w drawings & photos within text throughout.* Pages: 191 pp. text. ii pp. Advertisements, no index.* Description: One of the leading chroniclers of the Westcountry, through many books, newspaper articles and broadcasts on BBC Radio Bristol, Lewis Wilshire?s graceful and intelligent writings have charmed his readers for well over half a century. Here is the author?s personal selection of stories about his childhood. Detailed here with humour and great affection are a host of eccentric relations and childhood companions, in a now lost landscape of Methodism and hardship amid the stone-walled meadows where kingcups once grew. A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. in slightly bumped boards.