Dust jacket wear to edges, slightly chipped, unclipped. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Name & date on ffep. Slight lean. Frontispiece portrait of the author. James Farrar was killed while attempting to destroy a flying bomb during the summer of 1944. He was then not yet twenty-one, but he left behind him the body of work which this book contains, and which shows him to have been one of the most promising writers of his generation. Yet there is not only promise in this book. In the poems, stories, sketches, in the nature diary written while he was sixteen, and in his letters burns the many-coloured flame of genius, now tender, now fierce, sometimes meditative, sometimes lighthearted, but always the master of beautiful language. James Farrar tells his own story; the autobiography of a young man rushing to an early maturity, who was cut off on the verge of it. For this new edition, Henry Williamson has revised the Introduction he wrote for the book when it was first published in 1950.



James Farrar (1923-44)
Joined the RAF in 1942, killed in action July 1944. The Unreturning Spring (1950)