Hardback, Faber, first edition, February 1941.
Book condition: lacking the dust wrapper, spine a little worn, but otherwise a nice copy. Loosely inserted is a contemporary magazine article by Williamson, 'The Farmer Comes into His Own'; which magazine is unknown.

Today considered a classic of rural writing, the first edition was published in 1941, and the publisher's blurb is succinct: 'A few years ago, during the intense farming depression, Henry Williamson, foreseeing trouble, decided to become a farmer. Under-capitalized and with no experience of farming, and against all the good advice of his friends, he bought a yeoman-sized farm in East Anglia. This book is the story of the struggle.'

(For a further consideration of the book and the background to the writing of it, see Anne Williamson's The Story of a Norfolk Farm.)