From a Highland Croft 1952 Wendy Wood ~ Scottish Crofting ~ Scotland LIfe

Title: From a Highland Croft

Author: Wendy Wood

Description: First Edition. Boards in pale blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine. Previous owners' names on front pastedown and ffep. Pages show a couple spots of soiling, else generally clean. Illustrated with 12 full-pages b/w photographs by W. S. Thomson. Dust jacket has clear tape along top and bottom edges; light edgewear; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 48 pages.

Twelve descriptive sketches, one for each month of the year, observing the environment and describing her life at a Scottish Highlands croft through the course of a year. The author, Wendy Wood (1892-1981), was an eccentric and gifted artist and one of the founders of the political party that would later become the Scottish National Party. From the jacket flap: ''I do not want the idealised description, but the real life with its rain, its corrugated iron and its storms. That there is beauty which cancels out the drawbacks is as much truth as the mud and the barbed wire, and so I have just written as I find life from week to week, hoping that others will share my contentment and happiness.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good+

Publisher: Oliver & Boyd
Place: Edinburgh London
Year: 1952

Keywords: Scottish Highlands, crofting, Scotland,