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Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION, ROGER PEERS' COPY. 8vo. Original lime green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge pink (faded). Spine sunned and creased, gentle bruising to corners. Fawn book label of "Roger Neville Russ Peers" to front pastedown, bald patch to ffep. Else, clean and bright. In Carol Barker's charming dust jacket: spine gently darkened, some creasing and chipping, a few short closed tears, large fox spot and trace of label to front panel. Very good/ good+ A pleasing association copy of STW's collection of stories taking a "cat's-eye-view of creation" from the collection of Roger Peers, Curator of the Dorset County Museum (1959-1992), late friend of STW and saviour of her personal library and papers, many items of which were transferred to the Museum; in establishing its STW collection he played a crucial role in ensuring her cultural legacy. As well as a prominent curator, Roger Peers (1932-2023) was also Secretary of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society (DNHAS), through which he met STW. The elderly author granted Peers "the chance to choose for the collection of DNHAS (which owns the Dorset County Museum) any books from the library in her house at Frome Vauchurch, and also for myself" (Peers, 2017). In 1986, with the house needing to be cleared, Peers worked with bookseller John Ruston to "put aside all the copies of STW's and VA's books, all the presentation copies of other authors and a great many books of significance and reference, as well as shopping lists and drafts of poems". Peers also retrieved manuscripts of STW's musical compositions from rubbish bags. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 17b; Roger Peers (2017) 'A Dilemma and a Narrow Escape.' The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, 17(2).…