LIFE ON THE LAND
Written by Fred Kitchen. Illustrated by Frank Ormrod.
Stock no. 1831097
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1941. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Fred Kitchen's autobiography paints a vivid description of work on the land during the first half of the twentieth century in Northern England For a while he worked on the railroad and at collieries but decided that was not the life for him and after 13 years working in industry, he became a farm labourer again. Terracotta cloth boards with gilt title and vignette to spine. B/w woodcuts. 276 pages. A few minor scuffs to boards, light reading wear to spine. Foxing to endpapers and text block. A few scattered foxspots to contents else clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased with a couple of small closed tears (no loss), a little grubby, and browned to spine.