The Best Of James Herriot: Favourite Memories Of A Country Vet

London: Readers Digest in association with Michael Joseph, 1989 9780949819437. Hardback. Reprint with amendments from first edition. Fine. No DW as published. 504 pages with extensive illustrations in colour and b/w including photos and drawings Pictorial board covers. An excellent copy. No annotations or inscriptions. "James Herriot's own selection from his original books, with additional material by Reader's Digest Editors." Grey cloth spine with gilt lines & lettering. Pictorial boards show fields & sheep on front and Herriot with his dog on the back. There are selections from 'All Creatures Great and Small', 'All Things Bright and Beautiful', 'All Things Wise & Wonderful', 'James Herriot's Yorkshire' and 'The Lord God Made Them All' among others. "The ones my family and I have laughed at over the years and the ones my readers have said they most enjoyed," as Herriot himself put it. Yet the book is far more than a simple anthology: Its gorgeous pages also include hundreds of line drawings and color photographs, capturing Herriot's Yorkshire in a worthy complement to the writer's words. This one of those invaluable books that will be loved as much in decades to come as it is today. Weighs over 1 Kilo so postage outside UK will be extra. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This is a beautifully produced edition which will fascinate anyone interested in the Yorkshire Dales. .