My Left Foot. With a Foreword by Dr. Robert Collis. London: Secker & Warburg, 1954. First Edition. Pp, 192. Maroon cloth boards in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to jacket, otherwise a fine bright copy. Illustrated with five plates.

Signed & Dated in the year of publication by the Author on the front free endpaper. 

Christie Brown’s inspiring struggle with major physical disabilities and his triumph over same through his mental strength, his writing and his art. It stands as an early and influential work in disability literature.

Dr. Robert Collis’s foreword adds an important dimension. As the physician who later worked closely with Brown, Collis frames the autobiography not as a medical curiosity but as evidence of an intellect and creative spirit long overlooked.