Country Matters

London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Clare Leighton. 159pp. Quarto [27 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. The book is in very good condition. A small square has been cut from the jacket's spine, and there is a corresponding faded patch on the book's spine. The spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped, and there is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper. In a good only dust jacket, with the aforementioned flaw, light soiling, and multiple small closed and open tears in the edges, two of which have been backed with adhesive labels. With 73 wood engravings by Clare Leighton, 5 full page. Clare Leighton is most known for her illustrations of agrarian life in England, Europe and the American South.