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By: Anon
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Wakefield, EP Publishing Ltd: 1977
Seller ID: 104992
ISBN: 0715804537
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
72pp. Pictorial covers, slight wear to edges, slight creases but overall very good. Page edges browned. NO INSCRIPTIONS. Black and white line drawings. Internally CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT.; 104992; 4to (small) View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln: 1993
Edition: 2nd Impression
Seller ID: 112114
ISBN: 0711207755
Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
Green boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket which is not price-clipped. There are No Inscriptions or other Marks. 192 pp. Illustrated with colour photographs and drawings. Further reading; Useful addresses; Plant Index; General Index; Hardiness zones; Acknowledgments. Overall, this is an Excellent, Clean, Tight and Bright, Near 'As New' copy. "This book explains how to design and construct formal and informal pools and ponds, lakes, streams and bog gardens, leisure pools, splash pools, tubs and spas, fountains, geysers, gushers, casc... View more info
By: Ballinger, John
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Aberystwyth, The National Library of Wales: 1928
Edition: 1st and Limited Edition of 1000 copies only
Seller ID: 106988
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Printed at the private press of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Limited to 1,000 copies only. A series of essays on various documents from Welsh history in the library. Grey card covers, pencil name/writing on corner, foxing spots, fading, stain to front cover which runs through to the reverse of black/white frontispiece. Foxing spots to page edges, (10) + 64pp, rough cut pages, illustrated in black and white, hinges sound, internally clean and bright. Papers reprinted from the "Transactions of the West Wales Historical Society", Vols IX-XII. Includes papers on "The Reb... View more info
By: Ballinger, John
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Aberystwyth, The National Library of Wales: 1928
Edition: 1st and Limited Edition of 1000 copies only
Seller ID: 113159
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Printed at the private press of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Limited to 1,000 copies only. A series of essays on various documents from Welsh history in the library. Marine Blue cloth spine with Bright Gilt titling, and blue patterned paper covered boards. The boards are lightly rubbed to the tips of the corners o/w in VG plus condition. Light foxing spots to page fore edges. Internally there is a stamped name/address and a separate n/a sticker of 2 former owners on the plain white front free endpaper. (10) + 64pp. Black/white frontispiece (A Recantation - in Welsh - 1849) , and... View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd: 1922
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 112913
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Brown boards with bright orange titling to the spine, and a single orange border to the front board. No dustjacket. Very slight wear to the extremities (negligible) and the covers are now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and the book looks Near Fine. The page fore-edges are foxed/spotted and the top edge is 'dusty'. Internally some light and patchy foxing with some (very light) scattered foxing/patches here and there in the book o/w No Inscriptions or other Marks. (ix) + (3) + 200 pp + 4pp Publisher's book adverts. Including 4 Appendices = 1. Medieval Lyrics, 2. P... View more info
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, Seeley Service & Co Ltd: 1929
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 9033
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
In the original publishers' Tan Buckram cloth covered boards with gilt titling/decoration to the spine and the same decoration to the front cover. A very, very, slight fading to the base colour of the spine but all titling clear and legible. A few tiny spots on the spine - pretty negligible. No Dustjacket. 288pp. Minor light browning on the front free endpaper, with a former owner's name and date (Xmas 1929) in old ink on the same page. Many black and white illustrations thoughout. Also includes veterinary notes and a chapter on pig-sticking. ! The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games a Pastimes.... View more info
By: Brookes. A. J
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd: 1944
Edition: Presumed 1st Edition
Seller ID: 108766
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Green decorated (illustration of Oast-houses) boards with black titling to the spine and front cover. No Dustjacket. (xii) + 152 pp. Black and white Frontispiece and Illustrated throughout in b/w. "The series was written especially for members of Young Farmers' Clubs, School pupils interested in Farming, and those who wish to enter a Farm Institute." A lovely Period item. No Inscriptions. Overall a Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. ; Pitman Farming Books; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: Brown, Jonathan
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Ipswich, Farming Press: 1993
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 111020
ISBN: 085236217X
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Orange boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket which is not price-clipped. The dustjacket has some VERY slight fading to the edges of the front cover and there is one small tear to the top rear corner of the dustjacket which is now neatly repaired to the inside with clear archive tape. There are NO Inscriptions or other Marks. (ix) + 112 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs and colour prints. References and Select Bibliography; A Note on Weights and Measures; Index. Overall, apart from the minor faults, as detailed above, this is a Very Cl... View more info
By: Bruce, James
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Eyre and Spottiswoode: 1954
Edition: 1st Edition UK
Seller ID: 004838
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Clean navy blue boards, red title block to spine with gilt titling/borders. A light crease line to the spine and the corners and head/tail of spine are slightly 'bumped'. In the original publisher's black/white lettered dustjacket which is chipped and edge worn/torn - but is now repaired and in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks VG. Top page fore-edge crimson. The remaining page fore-edges slightly 'tanning'. ALL hinges tight. (x) + (6) + 362 pp. NO inscriptions. Overall a VG clean tight and bright copy. "Argentina is the richest, strongest and most spect... View more info
By: Buckland Frank
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Smith Elder & Co: 1886
Edition: New Edition
Seller ID: 9329
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
Light tan cloth boards with (slightly dulled) gilt titling to the spine and a gilt/maroon illustration to the front cover. No dustjacket. The boards have some rubbing to the extremities, some rub marking to the spine, and particularly to the corners where a couple of Tips only are through to the boards, a little bumping to the head/tail of the spine, but NO damage. All hinges are sound and tight. Plain dark brown endpapers - with a former owners' heraldic bookplate (Harry Arthur Clifton) on the front pastedown. Also a faded ink name on the top of the half title page (Eleanor Cecily Clifton '86... View more info
By: Cantrill, T. C. and O. T. Jones
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Archaeologia Cambrensis: 1911
Edition: Reprinted from Archaeologia Cambrensis
Seller ID: 113181
Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
July 1911. In black printed, very browned (possibly originally light green? ) and ragged edged/torn with a little loss, paper covers. The paper spine is split and with some losses to the spine. Internally VERY GOOD Plus. 33pp (paginated from the original 253-286) illustrated with one 'plan and section' in b/w in the text. No Inscriptions or Marks. Fascinating info for the student/researcher, etc. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: CECIL
Price: £22.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1873
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 113275
Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
Acceptable/'GOOD' ONLY. A Sound copy in Contemporary quarter maroon calf with gilt titling, (edges lightly rubbed) with green cloth covered boards ( somewhat rubbed, bumped, marked and scuffed - otherwise Good). Internally the book needs new endpapers as the front lacks all before the Title page and the rear lacks the rear free endpaper which has been torn away. Some grubby marks throughout with some 'side-lining' markings to the text here and there. The top corner blank margin on the 'Contents' page has also been torn off. (xii) + (1 'Stud Farm' Plan ) + 244pp. Possibly lacks a Frontispiece? ... View more info
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Foochow, China, Youtingshi - Sold By Ling Yu Sing: 1916
Edition: Presumed First Edition
Seller ID: 114061
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
No date, but this is an early 20th Century Chinese book with 12 hand-painted illustrations depicting the tale of the the cultivation of Silk, starting with Silkworm Eggs. The book has a 'fold-out accordion binding' which when folded out to the full extent, cover to cover, measures c. 3. 5 Metres (c. 11' 5" or c. 350cms) with a wood cover front and back. A Chinese "Foo" character is carved into front board and attractively infilled with a green chalky substance. See Images. The History of the cover design (The "Foo" (Fu) character = Happiness) is given in English on the firs... View more info
By: Collingwood, W. G., Illustrated by A. Reginald Smith
Price: £22.00
Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd: 1933
Edition: Reprinted with Revisions
Seller ID: 61067
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
A Very Good Plus, Revised, 1933 reprint edition of this very popular work, originally first published in 1902. Very Clean Crisp Tan Cloth bound Boards, titled in bright Gilt to the spine and titled/bordered in maroon to the front board. No Dustjacket. Small 'rub' points to the very TIPS of the corners and inner corners of the head/tail of the spine but overall VG/NF covers. Top edge brown/olivine. The remaining page fore edges are a little 'dusty' and have slight , very light, age browning. A former owners' small neat name in ink on the very top of the front free e/p. VERY light scattered foxi... View more info
By: Crombie Max ( Designed and Edited)
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Northwood,, Knights Press Ltd: (1940s)
Edition: Presumed First UK Edition
Seller ID: 9198
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
The Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies, No 26. NO Date but c. 1942. Decorated Card covers. Some light shelfwear - foxing/'rubbing' to edges/corners, rear cover, and rusty staples, o/w Very Good. Internally NO Inscriptions or Marks. 24 pp. Printed in b/w. With delightful b/w illustrations by Gerald Gardiner. An Anthology of Prose and Poetry on the 'Four Seasons'. At the time of listing I also have No. 8 In this most attractive series - 'The Chaffinch on the Bough. A Miniature Anthology in praise of The English Scene'. - Please enquire if interested in both. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall View more info
By: Crombie Max (Designed and Edited by)
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Northwood,, Knights Press Ltd: (1940s)
Edition: Presumed First UK Edition
Seller ID: 9197
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
The Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies, No 8. NO Date but c. 1942. Decorated Card covers. Small amount of light shelfwear - foxing/'rubbing' to edges/corners, rear cover, and some tiny spots of rust to spine by the staples, o/w Very Good. Internally NO Inscriptions or Marks. 24 pp. Printed on glossy paper in b/w. With delightful b/w illustrations by Gerald Gardiner. An Anthology of Prose and Poetry on the 'English Scene'. At the time of listing I also have No. 26 in this most attractive series - 'The Changing Scene. A Miniature Anthology of The Four Seasons'. - Please enquire if interested in ... View more info
By: Dammerman, K. W.
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Amsterdam, J. H. de Bussy Ltd: 1929
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 110913
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
This copy has been Rebound with a Red cloth spine, and red paper covered boards with the original cover pasted to front cover, which is grubby/stained. Names/prices written on the half title. There are also some very occasional ink notes/underlining - but only on a very few pages. Many attractive Colour plates and lots of black/white illustrations. The plate on p 388 has edge repairs with tape. OVERALL Internally VERY clean, tight and bright. (xi) + 473pp. Contents cover: - Animal Pests. Soil Fauna; Termites and Ants. Internal Plant Parasites. - Borers. External Plant Parasites - Biting Animal... View more info
Price: £3.50
Publisher: St David's, Merrivale: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 113539
ISBN: 0951520709
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
Pictorial laminated card covers. The edges of the covers are slightly discoloured and there are 2 marks to the front cover. No dustjacket as issued. Otherwise NO Inscriptions or other Marks. Internally Fine. 40 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs, maps and plans. Bibliography. Overall, apart from the minor blemishes to the covers, this is an Excellent, Clean, Tight and Bright, VG copy. " This book traces the story of the limeburning industry in North-West Pembrokeshire from Norman times until the early years of the twentieth century, and deals with the effect of the industry on the agricu... View more info
By: Davies, Leonard Twiston, Sir and Averyl Edwards
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Country Life Ltd.: 1939
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 113434
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
Very Good crimson red cloth boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, and white titling to the front cover. NO dustjacket. Head/Tail of the spine a little bumped. Page fore-edges slightly 'dusty'/browning with a few brown spots on the lower edges. An old gift note in ink on the front free blank endpaper. (xii) + 243 pp, b/w frontispiece and 29 other b/w plates. Foreword + Chapters on Agriculture and Country Life, Literature, Industry, Religion Education and Politics, Science, Medicine, Architecture, Furniture and Decoration, Art, Folklore and with a Bibliography. Overall, apart from the mi... View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: St David's, Merrivale: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 113538
ISBN: 0951520709
Condition: As New with no dust jacket
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in pen to the top of the front endpaper. Pictorial laminated card covers. No dustjacket as issued. Otherwise No other Inscriptions or Marks. 40 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs, maps and plans. Bibliography. Overall, this is an Excellent, Clean, Tight and Bright, Near 'As New' copy. " This book traces the story of the limeburning industry in North-West Pembrokeshire from Norman times until the early years of the twentieth century, and deals with the effect of the industry on the agriculture and economy of the area. The method of operation is described and a list of... View more info
