BATES, H.E. (author). Edward ARDIZZONE (illustrator). Sugar for the Horse. London Michael. Joseph. 1957

8vo.; publisher’s mid-blue cloth with onlaid spine label in crimson lettered and decorated in gilt, pink pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [vi], 7-119 + [i]; with pictorial chapter-headings throughout by Ardizzone; a near fine copy without inscription, save the usual vertical strip of offset-browning to endpapers, in a very good, unclipped dustwrapper (12s. 6d.) with abrasion to upper joint at head and heel, a tiny nick to top of spine, and a couple of small spots to the same.

First edition. In “Sugar for the Horse” H.E. Bates continues the saga of old Uncle Silas, first published by Ardizzone in 1939, and introduces twelve new stories about the “countryman with the gargantuan appetite and thirst, the button-bright eye for a pretty girl, and the prodigious memory to which his fertile memory is accomplice” (flap blurb).