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WHITE, T.H. Gone to Ground, London, Collins, 1935, 8°, FIRST EDITION, title with later INSCRIPTION: "John Arlott T.H. White," and an original pen-and-ink sketch by White of a horseman and his dog, original brown cloth.
The sequel to Earth Stopped (1934), the first of the novels written while White was teaching at Stowe, in which the chief characters from the earlier work are "drawn into an underground shelter where they find Mr. Soapey Sponge and Mr. Facey Romford, enjoying a hale old age of 112 with still quite a lot of bottles left. Like Boccacio's plague party, they pass the time by telling stories ...." (Sylvia Townsend Warner, T.H. White, Jonathan Cape, 1987, p. 79).
The sequel to Earth Stopped (1934), the first of the novels written while White was teaching at Stowe, in which the chief characters from the earlier work are "drawn into an underground shelter where they find Mr. Soapey Sponge and Mr. Facey Romford, enjoying a hale old age of 112 with still quite a lot of bottles left. Like Boccacio's plague party, they pass the time by telling stories ...." (Sylvia Townsend Warner, T.H. White, Jonathan Cape, 1987, p. 79).