I, Said the Sparrow by Paul West - 1963

Hutchinson, 1963T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. 1963 FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order

London: Hutchinson, 1963. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20cm); green cloth covered boards titled in black on the spine; dustjacket; 167pp.; illustrated by Leonard Rosoman; some lifting to the cloth of the front board; very faint spots of foxing inside front cover; about Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced 18s net) with light rubbing along upper edge of jacket; Near Fine. "This vivd account of a writer's boyhood would stand out simply as reportage; but brilliance of the writing lifts it to the point where it demands to be read and enjoyed as literature." (from the dustjacket).

Hutchinson, London, 1963 (1st edition). viii + 167pp, with b/w illus by Leonard Rosoman. Cloth boards, slightly bumped. Rear panel of d/w little marked, edges little frayed. Number stamped inside rear cover, but contents clean and tight. 20x13cms.

London: Hutchinson, (1963). First edition. 8vo., black boards, pp. [167]; drawings by Leonard Rosoman. Review copy with the publisher's slip laid in. Reviewer's tidy suscinct pencil notes in upper margins of many pages. Crown of spine slightly bumped, else very good in a very good dust jacket, with a one inch creased tear to the head of the spine..

London: Hutchinson of London, 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Drawings by Leonard Rosoman. Just about fine in very good dustwrapper with a chip on the front panel. A nice copy of the author's third book, and first volume of memoirs, about his childhood in Eckington. Inscribed to Nan and Charley Mann, who would become the dedicatees of his best-known novel, *Alley Jaggers*: "Nan and Charley, with love from Paul on his birthday. 23 February 1963.