Laurie Lee: 'My Many-coated Man', London, Andre Deutsch, Jun...

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Laurie Lee: 'My Many-coated Man', London, Andre Deutsch, June 1955, 2nd impression, signed to title page, original decorated paper covered boards, ownership signature "John R.H. Yeoman 1957" to front pastedown, dust wrapper (slightly worn, lacking backstrip section of wrapper, 6s net price intact). From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton”