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8vo., First Edition, neat numeral written on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations(many full-page) in the text; coloured pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Covers heavy draught horses, army and police horses, ponies and all manner of equestrian sports.
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Wightman's autobiography is partricularly interesting for the light it throws on the BBC of the 1950's (the author was a regular broadcaster on the countryside, and a panel member of 'Any Questions' and 'The Brain's Trust')
19813132042Basel: Birkhäuser-Verlag 1981. XII, 451 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen. 4° (25-35 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit Goldprägung. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning around spine and no bumping to corners. 160pp. A social history of the English village, with much of the book being well-captioned photographs depicting them.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with no bumping to corners. 2-56pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'plant-hunting on Cader Idris, a buzzard on the common, St Mary's Church - Mundon Essex, better crops and fewer pests, a three-antlered buck, Royal Norfolk Show, Wimbledon 1960, Henley Regatta 1960, Dunsland House - Devon, Bisley - rifles since muzzle-loading days, Pittville Pump Room - Cheltenham, Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II, Canada Cup - golf, art that kindled Jacobite hopes, the new Provost's Lodgings at Queen's Oxford and Wimbledon fashion'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with no bumping to corners. 1426-1477pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Malmesbury Wiltshire, when rabbits were a crop, transatlantic single-handed racing, Carlo Labruzzi - 18th century painter, Brabazon Golf Trophy, Ascot racing, Church Langton - Leicestershire, young wild ceatures, wall-plants, Dunmow Flitch and motorway speed'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slight foxing to covers and no bumping to corners. 1480-1541pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'trends in livestock breeding, the arts of the Sung Dynasty, fen farming, the art of Poussin, modern marketing for farm produce, the young Lord Burlington, hunters at Shrewsbury Show, the Manor House at Hale Lancashire, golf Open at Prestwick, raising productivity on a Suffolk farm, keeping the character of village life, tower follies of the south, modern farm machinery and the Jaguar XK 150S'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 970-1030pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'the Shah's Gardens in Tehran, the working spaniel, Royal Academy exhibits, flower warmth attracts bees, golfer of great promise - DN Sewell, Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, wild geese fly home, Tiepolo as a draughtsman, schools' rifle shooting competition, syndicates for farm prosperity and four centuries peal from Holy Trinity Church - Hatton Warwickshire'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
No marks or inscriptions. A little creasing to rear spine margin. A very clean very tight copy with rusty staples, cover loose on one staple and no bumping to corners. 418-468pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'the hidden dangers in planning, nightjars, Edward Lhuyd (Lloyd) a pioneer British botanist, sermons in terracotta - George Tinworth, deep-water cruising, Drumlarig Castle - Dumfriesshire, partridge and pheasant shooting, the peacock butterfly, the welsh spoon-carver and West Amesbury House - Wiltshire, '. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with foxing to covers, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 602-657pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'landscape of the new towns, a Swaledale tale, Georgian sedan chairs, new master golfer - J Hitchcock, country craftsmen furniture, Hinwick House - Bedfordshire, equipping a farm workshop, can an angler beat drag, threat to Teneriffe's wild life, Sir Francis Chantrey - Jordanthoorpe Farm at Norton and Robert Davies - a fine smith'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to lower corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 660-711pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Knightshayes Court Garden - Devon by Lanning Roper, new British Chancery in Washington, eagle owls in Sweden, screens or vistas in cathedrals, up the River Dovey (Dyfi) in Wales, Hinwick House - Bedfordshire, more milk from grass-land, crafts of Orkney and Shetland and Allen's Wall - Lindfield Sussex'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with foxing to covers, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 472-533pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'driving in Skye by WA Poucher, Church of St Luke - Old Street London, Sussex sheep farming, late owner's dog's devotion, Whistler's art, Drumlarig Castle - Dumfriesshire, butterfly decline, high prices at Newmarket, results of the experimental 50 mph speed limit and Hester Bateman - 18th century woman silversmith'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly foxed unmarked front cover, slightly dusty rear, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 1670-1717pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Music rooms of the 18th century, gardening at 11,000 feet, railways of the Isle of Man, Christmas doles (charities) of the West Riding, famous theatres of London's past, one of England's oldest hunts (Hampshire), Russborough - Co Wicklow, and a change from Neo-Georgian (Witley Park)'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
Faint pencil name to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked slightly dusty covers, staples not rusty and no bumping to corners. 46-87pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'ringing wild swans in Iceland, successful season of schools rugby, pea-flowered trees and shrubs, antiquities in Yorkshire gardens, a profilist of Georgian Bath (Charles Rosenberg), old Will the fireman, Heath House - Tean - Staffordshire, new life for ancient woodlands - Forest of Dean and an English Carcassone - Chester'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked covers, staples not rusty and no bumping to corners. 952-1023pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Spring climbs in Wester Ross, Fruit spraying after a hard winter, A Victorian family's inventive genius - Bentalls of Maldon Essex, Hidden treasure of medieval faces - Bourg in Burgundy, New light on old commons, Modern methods of storing grain, Encounter with a giant owl, A cave village by the Loir - Troo, A canal with a future - Brecon & Abergavenny, square bottles for sundry uses plus a 16 page supplement on the wedding of Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 695-755pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Making music in country houses, Shortcomings of the Deer Acts, Village of a parson poet - Morwenstow - Robert Hawker, plants with green flowers, Prospects for the Boat Race, Cornish hedges made of stone, Winchester College's building warden, Ten days in Normandy in 1860, Glass pyramids on the dessert table, Breckland's meres in varied moods and Georgian splendour in South India - Madras'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
Name to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked front cover, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 487-549pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'London's lost gardens, when a book ruled Wales, style in Victorian furniture, a morning to remember - salmon fishing on the Spey, shrubs that herald the spring, the arts of Thailand, Glin Castle - Co Limerick, the need for local nature reserves, the beach and cereal varieties for spring sowing'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked front cover, slightly dusty rear, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 1242-1311pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'A Zuider Zee for Lancashire - Morecambe Bay, making a shepherd's crook, poet of English rural life - John Clare, when Drake became a landsman, May morning at the source of the Seine, Bellamont Forest - Co Cavan, pageant of the peony, wild days of border castle raids, porcelain from a short-lived factory - Longton Hall, a naturalist in Tunisia, new murals in an old Kent church - Challock and the rise and fall of the clay pipe'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers, slightly dusty rear cover, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 861-925pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Reclaiming land from The Wash, Can Bath sacrifice New Bond Street, True blues for the rock-garden, Elegance in ironwork - Leamington Spa, The Old Palace - Croydon, Relics of the whaling trade, Elegant wines from difficult sites, In search of cup and ring - Northumbria & Sweden, A squirrel that lived in the bath, Fresh winds on the common - Parliament and Snuff boxes made by watchmakers'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
Name to rear cover. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with rubbing near lower corner of very slightly foxed front cover and no bumping to corners. 210-263pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Seabirds of the Shetlands, planting for bee-pasture, Wivenhoe New Park - Essex, A look at the South Africans, Irish town at its best - Birr Co Offaly, The diversity of Francis Wheatley, Hedges to screen seaside gardens, One man's fish - salmon or tarpon, A stepping stone from Europe to Asia - Skyros, Scrolls and arms on lead cisterns and Man beneath the skin - Giacometti'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
199941902Durham: Duke University Press 1999. First trade paperback printing. 98 pp w/note. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Durham: Duke University Press, paperback books
In-8 (cm. 22.70), brossura editoriale illustrata, pp. 117, (3), con illustrazioni in bianco e nero e a colori nel testo. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
1990104796Couverture souple. Broché. 90 pages.