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Buy this book on-line CARTER**, BRIAN: : YESTERDAY'S HARVEST. [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.DENT & SONS LTD.,1982. ISBN 0460045628.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat,blue ink, handwritten inscrptn: 'Kindest regards and best wishes Brian Carter Jan 1983 Devon' to front free endpaper and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated; mustard colour background with a black line illustration to a pale yellow panel in centre of front panel of dw/dj with b/w lettering,b/w lettering to lightly sunned spine/backstip; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without marks,blemishes or foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers - author's inscrptn excepted.UK, slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,1-186pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters each with a b/w line illustrated chapter headpiece; plus [unpaginated] title page,a contents list/table with dedication to reverse,and an epigraph.
Brian Carter's account of his Devon childhood recalls the years 1946 to 1949,when the countryside was still in a state of reprieve and nature was encouraged to stray into the back yard.He writes engagingly of his life on the edge of a small town,where delivery horses plodded down the streets and the aroma of roasted coffee wafted from the grill in the pavement outside the Home & Colonial stores.Not far away,there was the no-man's-land of allotments,the excitement of scrumping and the heady adventure of collecting gull's eggs from the sea cliffs at Brixham.
The author describes the mischievous and sometimes dramatic escapades of himself and his contemporaries - 'angels in wellies,with catapults and snotty noses' - and conveys the long-lost thrills of helping to light the gas lamps in the street or standing on the local railway bridge and letting the steam from the engine billow around you.
'Yesterday's Harvest.' is written with pathos as well as earthy humour,and Brian Carter expresses a deep awareness of nostalgia through lyrical writing in the great tradition of childhood reminiscences.
Brian Carter is a writer and artist who lives in Paignton,Devon (then 1982).
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