Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay

270pp, 60 illustrations by David Gentleman, complete with fold out map at rear showing the area of Blaxhall and Little Glemham in Suffolk. Colour illustrated boards (boards clean and crisp). Illustrated endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, illustrated dust jacket (very slightly bumped along upper edge). A deluxe edition of this classic work, published to celebrate the centenary of the author's birth, it includes 60 beautiful new drawings in pencil, pen and wash and watercolours all by his son-in-law, David Gentleman, which capture the landscape and character of contemporary Blaxhall. Evans, a Welsh writer, arrived in the remote, rural village of Blaxhall in 1948 and soon began talking to the local people and recording their recollections of the area, becoming a pioneering oral historian. A beautiful edition of a beautiful work. Gift quality copy. 8vo.