An Idler on the Shropshire Borders

First edition, first impression.  160pp, with illustrated frontispiece.  Green publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering front and spine. 8vo.  Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Text block edges just a little toned. Gift inscription, in a childish hand, on the front free endpaper, otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  Paper dust jacket, rubbed at edges and bumped along upper edge, small chip on spine, shelf worn and a little brittle: toned on interior. In what seems to her like a miracle, Ida Gandy found a practice for her doctor husband.  It was 1930 and the practice was in the Shropshire village of Clunbury.  Clunbury was to become their very happy home for 15 years.  Drawing on her diaries, Gundy writes of it and its surroundings with deep affection - of the people and the exploring they undertook over the Shropshire Hills, of the Clun sheep, of village events, of the rivers and birds and animals which surrounded them.