A WESTMINSTER CHILDHOOD
Written by John Raynor
Illustrated by Dennis Flanders
Published by Cassell & Company Limited
in 1973
ISBN: 0304291838
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A WESTMINSTER CHILDHOOD
Written by John Raynor.
Illustrated by Dennis Flanders.
Stock no. 2122454
1st.
1973.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
When John Raynor, composer of nearly 700 song settings, died so tragically in a road accident in 1970, he left behind not only his lifetime's musical work, but the manuscript of this enchanting account of the years of his childhood. ISBN: 0304291838. A few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with a little edge-creasing.
Front cover
Contents
- Part I: TIME
- 1 The Dawn
- 2 The Abbey
- 3 Ghosts
- 4 The Time
- 5 The College Garden
- Part II: THE BRIGHT AND THE DARK
- 6 The Window
- 7 The River
- 8 The Holiday at Haresfield
- 9 The Bright and the Dark
- 10 The Nursery
- 11 The Garden
- Part III: THE OLD ORDER
- 12 'The Class'
- 13 The Fireside
- 14 The Old Order
- 15 Lepidoptera
- 16 The Air-riads
- 17 Yule-tide
- Part IV: THE CHILD-SELF
- 18 The Dark Angel
- 19 The Approach of the Dove
- 20 The Friend
- 21 The Mortal and the Immortal
- 22 The Child-self
- 23 The Curtain Falls