Rare with this letter and a nice package. In this respect, the recipient is particularly interesting – Michael Rubinstein was a lawyer specialising in publishing and literary matters, particularly concerning libel – and it was Rubinstein who was instructed to act for The Hogarth Press over the famous fire at the piano factory’ passages in Lee’s Cider With Rosie in 1960 which resulted in Lee having to pay substantial personal damages, and passages in the 1959 first edition of the book being amended. 25 likes, 3 comments - Orchestra of the Swan (orchestraoftheswan) on Instagram: ' We’ll just let Anton Lesser and charliehamblett tell you all. A first edition, first impression of this autobiographical novel by Laurie Lee. The film was made by Carlton Television for ITV and was first broadcast in Britain on 27 December 1998.
Note he spells Rubinstein incorrectly as Rubenstein – in context a telling metaphoric betrayal of Lee’s reputation for not always presenting his facts’ with 100% accuracy. Cider with Rosie is the first in a trilogy that continues with As I. Cider with Rosie is a British television film of 1998 directed by Charles Beeson, with a screenplay by John Mortimer, starring Juliet Stevenson, based on the 1959 book of the same name by Laurie Lee.
He writes to Michael RubInstein, dated 3 February 1986, offering his support for an applicant (Regie Sloane?) for membership to the celebrated Garrick Club. Comes with a handwritten letter (ALS) in Lees trademark felt-tip on his headed notepaper from 9/40 Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, London. A near fine book with some spotting to the page edges, in a near fine wrapper which is unclipped. The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote. Laurie Lee died in May 1997.A first edition, first printing published by The Hogarth Press in 1959. Laurie Lee also published four collections of poems, The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Packet Poems (1960) as well as The Voyage of Magellan (1948), a verse play for radio, A Rose for Winter (1955), which records his travels in Andalusia, The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975), a collection of his writing, and Two Women (1983). Cider With Rosie (1959) has sold over six million copies worldwide, and was followed by two other volumes of autobiography: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. At the age on nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, as described in his book As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. Biography: Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School.
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