Card covers, St Albert's Press, limited edition of 1000 numbered copies,1961. This copy is number 812.
Book condition: A nice copy, with the card wrapper, the spine of which is faded. Loosely inserted is Maurice Wiggin's review of the book which appeared in The Sunday Times  on 5 March 1961.

In the Woods is described on the back cover as 'an episode of the last war . . . taken from a work of autobiography by Henry Wiliamson that is to remain unpublished for the present'. (The episode was later incorporated into Lucifer before Sunrise.)

In the publisher's pre-publication flier for the book Williamson is a little more expansive:

In the Woodsis taken from a volume of unpublished autobiography and was written in the winter of 1941–42 in Norfolk. It describes a journey from Norfolk to Devon in July of the previous summer, and activities in an oak wood near the Atlantic coast. Three of us, two men and a girl, set out in darkness before dawn during an air-raid, with a lorry loaded with 100 gallons of petrol, a tractor, and a circular saw. Our destination, 310 miles westward, was Stoneyard Wood, an area of wild oaks and cherry trees covering the slopes and crown of a hill near Ilfracombe and extending to about 40 acres. I owned a small parcel of this wood, and the scrub was twenty-eight years old, which should have been cleared in 1934. . . .

The lorry was overloaded, we had to go slowly; the journey through wartime England, with its blackout, took twenty-two hours. It was well worth it. There followed a month of felling poles up to eight inches in diameter (each axe did about eighty a day) followed by stripping, hauling, and sawing. We sold about two and a half tons a day, and made a small profit. The woodland life was pleasant; too soon the time arrived when the bivouac must be taken down, and a return made to the ordinary world.

(For a further consideration of the book and the background to the writing of it, see Anne Williamson's In the Woods.)