Genesis Down

by Vian Smith

1962. First Edition. 222 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front endpapers. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Vian Smith was an English author and horse trainer. Spanning fiction and nonfiction, his work focuses on the relationship between people and horses and prominently features the Devon moorland Dartmoor. Smith died at 49.

Reviews

[Clare O'Beara · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent tale by a wonderful stylist, this portrays the tough life of farmers on Dartmoor, England, in the 1860s. Smith, who wrote this in 1962, is better known as a horseman and wrote several books about horses. He was also a journalist for much of his life.