"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Saturdays with Bricks. (and other days under shell-fire).
London: Hutchinson, 1961. [Literary Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.126; [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: "For | K. T. Williams | with best wishes | from | Dennis Wheatley". With five double-sided photographic plates of walls build by the author, and a frontispiece photograph of him as a young man in uniform. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles to spine and orange endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Two library shelf mark stickers to base of jacket spine, one removed with some loss to printed surface. No other library markings; just minor chipping and rubbing to jacket edges. Very good. The prolific author's account of his obsession with building walls, dedicated to another celebrity brick-layer, Winston Churchill. Item #49996
Price: £145.00
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