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19 vols., 8vo., First Edition, variously with frontispieces, plates, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers, two or three volumes with small inscriptions, first volume with front free endpaper clipped; cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper, two or three wrappers chipped at head and tail. THIRD AND FIFTEENTH VOLUMES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The Chronicles comprise: A Gull on the Roof (1961); A Cat in the Window (1962); A Drake at the Door (1963); A Donkey in the Meadow (1965); Lama (1966); The Way to Minack (1968); A Cornish Summer (1970); Cottage on a Cliff (1972); A Cat Affair (1974); Sun on the Lintel (1976); The Winding Lane (1978); When the Winds Blow (1980); The Ambrose Rock (1982); A Quiet Year (1984); The Cherry Tree (1986); Jeannie (1988); The Evening Gull (1990); Monty's Leap (1993); The Confusion Room (1996). When Derek and Jean Tangye relocated from the bustle of the West End of London to the clifftop solitude of Minack in Cornwall, they began an idyllic lifestyle entwining romance, rural enterprise, much-loved pets and a variety of other creatures. Derek's evocative retelling of the story, enlivened by Jeannie's illustrations, led to the 'Chronicles', a unique, thirty-five year sequence of narratives followed eagerly by readers throughout the world. Unsurprisingly, the Tangye's Minack became, and remains, a popular focus of pilgrimage to this day. COMPLETE SETS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE.