First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 220pp. Green cloth, blocked in red and lettered in gold at the spine. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. A very good copy in lightly dust soiled non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper. A memoir of his childhood and early adult years by the noted poet and fantasy author. "It is his most important and characteristic book; it is his best book. It should entitle him at least to a place beside such minor classics as Gilbert White, Charles lamb and Mark Rutherford" - from Wilson's introduction.