Description

Down To Earth by John Stewart Collis

The son of an Irish solicitor, John Stewart Collis was educated at Rugby and Oxford. A writer of biographies and other works, his first book on George Bernard Shaw, was published in 1925, followed by biographies of Havelock Ellis, Strindberg, Tolstoy, the Carlyles and Christopher Columbus. He is remembered largely for While Following the Plough (1946) and Down to Earth (1947: as one volume, The Worm Forgives the Plough, 1973), works inspired by the years he spent working as a farm labourer in Dorset and Sussex during the Second World War.

Features;

• First Edition
• Publisher Jonathan Cape, London; 1947
• Green Cloth Hardback, 190 pp
• Wood engravings by David Koster
• Size 205 x 140 mm, 17~18, 480g

Condition: Very Good – Dust Jacket with Worn Edges Now In Protective Sleeve, No Inscriptions, Very Good Copy

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