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Williamson, Henry.
Tarka The Otter.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, London & New York;
Date of Publication: 1927
Stock Code: 14179
First Edition. Octavo, pp., 256. With introduction by Sir John Fortescue. Tawny brown cloth cover with gilt titles to spine, in the publisher’s original dappled duck-egg blue dust-jacket illustrated by Hester Sainsbury. The end-papers are a little toned, with a small neat ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Some light scattered foxing to first few pages, top-edge dusty, a clean tight copy. The dust-jacket spine is slightly toned but is otherwise very well preserved with no tears or chips. A near fine book in a like dust-jacket. Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was a prolific writer of novels concerning wildlife, the countryside, English social history, and the First World War. First published in 1927 Tarka the Otter won the Hawthornden Prize in 1928 and has never been out of print. Williamson’s writing style is descriptive and poetic without resorting to sentimentality or anthropomorphisation, and refusing to shy away from the reality of the violence and cruelty of hunting. £650.00