Publisher’s Synopsis
This famous and much loved the book was first published in 1927, when it won the Hawthornden Prize and was publicly praised by the literary giants who now seem almost a legendary - Arnold Bennett , John Goldsworthy and Thomas Hardy .  T.E. Lawrence admired it greatly.  It first appeared without illustrations, but in 1932  C.F. Tunnicliffe, working with the author, made drawings of the North Devon places and scenes described in the text, and the two have become almost inseparable.  Since then the book has been reprinted countless times;  it was amongst the first titles to appear in a paperback edition when Sir Allen Lane began his Penguin list in the 1930s;  it has been translated into many foreign languages;  it has appeared in an addition for school use and,  more recently,  in a Nonesuch addition for connoisseurs of book production.  In short, Tarka has become a classic, and one that appeals as much to children as the adults.  As a reviewer wrote in the ‘Times Literary Supplement’,  ‘it is a book of transcending beauty and truth, and those children, and adults, who prove worthy of it, may find it a major experience of their reading lives’.
The Bodley Head; 1969 Reprint. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover- price 18/-. Second impression. With an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue, illustrated by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Dust cover intact but slight shelf wear to top and slight yellowing. Binding tight and text clean. Some very light foxing to page edges. Brown stain to bottom page edges. Small mark to first paste down. Pre-owned. ISBN: 370009886