First published1918. Revised Edition, illustrated with Wood-Engravings by Eric Fitch Daglish, 1931. Introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Original blue cloth boards, dulled, spine faded, lettered silver on spine, gold owl motif top board. Bookseller stamp front paste down: "Mary Martin, 13 Alma Chambers, Commercial Place, Adelaide" Pp.xxiv (last blank verso) 337, including List of Full Page Illustrations, including Frontispiece: "A Big Brown-and-Yellow Mottled Owl.with its claws grasping a Dead Pigeon". I: Earliest Memories II: My New Home III: Death of An Old Dog IV: The Plantation V: Aspects of the Plain VI: Some Bird Adventures VII: My First Visit to Buenos Ayres VIII: The Tyrant's Fall and What Followed IX: Our Neighbours at the Poplars X: Our Nearest English Neighbours XI: A Breeder of Piebalds XII: The Head of a Decayed House XIII: A Patriarch of the Pampas XIV: The Dovecote XV: Serpent and Child XVI: A Serpent Mystery XVII: A Boy's Animism XVIII: The New Schoolmaster XIX: Brothers XX: Birding in the Marshes XXI: Wild-Fowling Adventures XXII: Boyhood's End XXIII: A Darkened Life XXIV: Loss and Gain. Seller Inventory # 14917

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Title: Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early...

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London & Toronto

Publication Date: 1931

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Eric Fitch Daglish

Condition: Near Fine

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