1st edition, second printing. [1935]. 318pp, numerous black and white plate illustrations, plus publisher's catalogue at rear. 8vo. In buff cloth-covered boards with red lettering front and spine. Cloth is lightly soiled, rubbed at edges, and more markedly so around spine joints and ends. Small stain on sunned backstrip. Text block edges heavily spotted, with faint, occasional foxing throughout. The story of an old house in the Weald of Kent which in the past had sheltered weavers, smugglers, devotees of black magic and ghosts, which reflects the lure of the country and what draws men to the land, with stories of birds and flowers, of making a garden and pictures of the Weald are kaleidoscoped in a house steeped in Wealden history. Please note, there is a section from p105 onwards which contains language which some may now find offensive.
