A good fiver's worth here - A Shropshire Lad and The Land is yours (below). If you double click on the picture below you will be able to read the pages and then you can go to Amazon and see if it's being offered for a penny . . .
I just can't resist them. When I was in Brecon again on Monday, I took fellow bookaholics (my daughter and her boyfriend) into Andrew Morton's excellent 2nd hand bookshop. I DID resist a little tempation and didn't buy the Fred Kitchen book I found there though I did want it, but then I found another C Henry Warren book and it was only £3 so I talked myself into that, and then I was browsing the poetry section for anything by any of the Dymock poets or about them, and came upon a cheap (£2) copy of Houseman's A Shropshire Lad. Well, I think you will understand I couldn't leave them behind . . . In fact, following a conversation I had with a friend, who kindly gave me some wonderful literary gems recently following her aunt's death, it would appear that her aunty was guiding my hand, since A Shropshire Lad was her permanent bedside companion . . . Thank you Jessie . . .
I cannot think how I came to click on your blog, Bovey, whilst I was supposed to be writing an article on Ludlow and the Shropshire Hills that is to include a quote from Houseman, but I did - and I wish I had know about the Brecon bookshop when we drove through there last week. trouble is, I would have spent far too much!
ReplyDeleteNaughty Ann! I believe there is no such thing as coincidences - though my daughters boyfriend thinks I am bonkers when I try and convince him about such things. The Houseman was only £2 and it's never the books I BUY that I regret, it's the ones I leave behind . . .
ReplyDeleteIf you drove through there last week, you wouldn't have been too far from me - well, we're 43 miles beyond Brecon, but that's "near" round here . . . Kettle's always on . . .
I too bought some books yesterday! Do you have a copy of the Magic Apple Tree? I just couldn't leave it sitting there now could I?
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Yes I do Kim, and it's a LOVELY book. Believe it or not, there was a copy in Brecon on Monday too!
ReplyDeleteThat C Henry Warren book is now on my 'wanted' list! Have you read his 'England is a Village'? The Magic Apple Tree is one of my favourites too.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have England is a Village too Rowan. If I see any doubles of C(larence!) Henry Warren's books I'll get them for you. I am ever hopeful that some more BB books will be at a car boot sale . . .
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