Laurens Jan VAN DER POST / The Seed and the Sower Signed 1st Edition

The Seed and the Sower. Description: [Short stories] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the title page. Publisher's green cloth-effect paper, gilt titles to spine.

With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Woodcock. Spotting to top and fore edges.

Some rubbing/spotting to jacket, toning to backstrip. Gentle wear to jacket extremities.

Three short stories, each one about the war experience of an English soldier named John Lawrence. The stories all involve England, Japan, and Africa, the three most important locations in the life of Laurens Van Der Post who grew up in South Africa, travelled to Japan, and lived in London. Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971. As part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells.

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