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Beckham Books Ltd.

Chilton Mount, Newton Road, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2RS, UK
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	ANON. A Complete Guide to Fishing. Coarse, Sea and Game. London: Marshall Cavendish Books Ltd, 1983. 2nd Printing. Fish, tackle and techniques. A book for enthusiasts of all ages. 23cms. x 15.5cms. Pp. 3/464/4 (Index), 376 colour & 22 b/w photographs, 251 colour & 50 b/w illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Light green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/VG. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 16899 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	BARRETT, HUGH. Early to Rise. A Suffolk Morning. Ipswich, England: Farming Press, 1995. rep. "This is an authentic first-hand account of life as a sixteen-year-old farm pupil in the early 1930s. Tractors had not yet displaced the horses, labour was dirt-cheap and the working day long and hard." Foreword by Ronald Blythe. Drawings by Roderic Barrett. Pp.6/164, with b/w illustratiions throughout. P/b with illustrated cover. G+. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 19095 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	CHRISTIAN, GARTH. The Country Life Countryman's Pocket Book. (Illustrated by C. Dampier Freeman.) London: Country Life Ltd, 1967. 1st ed. "Within this small volume is a vast amount of information designed to deepen understanding of the geological nature of our landscape, the trees, flowers, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibia, butterflies and other insects that the walker or cyclist or motorist may encounter." 15.5cms. x 11.5cms. Pp. 303, over 530 line drawings. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w has 1" tear to top front fold. VG/G. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 28022 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	COLE, PEGGY. Peggy Cole's Country Cottage Companion. (Illustrated by Alfred Geary). Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1988. 1st ed. "Beautifully illustrated, this is a charming gift book on genuine country living, packed with the flavours, colours and aromas of the country garden." Pp. 200, 8 colour plates, 23 b/w line drawings, signed by author to title page. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w. VG/VG. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 \| JP¥ 1482] Book number: 17671 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	DEAKIN, BARTRAM. (COMPILER.) Nothing of the Town. A Countryman's Anthology. (Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.) London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1947. 1st ed. "Mr. Deakin presents a panorama of the countryside, a picture of the country as it is today as well as the rural life of yesterday." Pp. 248, 14 illustrations, inscrip. to fep, uneven toning to endpapers. Green cloth, illustrated d/w has small losses. G+/G. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 25340 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	ELLIS, E.A. The Countryside of East Anglia. Norwich: Jarrold Colour Publications. 1979. "Provides glimpses of a small selection of features interesting to naturalists in the local countryside". Pp. Unpaginated. Full of colour illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 17829 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	FAIERS, ROY. (EDITOR). Evergreen. A Miscellany of This and That and Things Gone By. Vol. 6. No. 3. Autumn, 1990. Cheltenham: Evergreen, 1990. "A country companion for all who love Britain's customs and traditions." Pp. 140. Many col. and b/w. illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 12673 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	GEE, H.L. The Shining Highway. An Account of a Plain Man's Pilgrimage. London: The Epworth Press. 1956. "A book on the English countryside. A charming and restful book to read and keep". Pp 126. Toned pages. P/b. Scuffed spine with small tear to bottom. Illustrated cover. G+. GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.83 \| JP¥ 519] Book number: 18281 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	GLOVER, C. GORDON, & DRABBLE, PHIL. Tom Forrest's Country Calendar. From The Archers. BBC. London: BBC, 1978. 1st ed. Compiled from the original material written for The Archers. Pp. 144. 42 b/w illustns. by Thomas Bewick. P/b. Portrait cover of Bob Arnold as Tom Forest by Michael Hopkinson. VG. GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.83 \| JP¥ 519] Book number: 6368 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	HAINES, GEORGE H. Whose Countryside? London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1973. 1st ed. "The message of Whose Countryside? is this: It is more important to maintain the economic and social life of the countryside than to preserve particular stones, buildings or 'views'". Pp. 124. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, illustd. d/w, price clipped, slight sunning to spine, chipping to back wrap. G/G. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 11364 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	HALL, CHRISTOPHER. (EDITOR.) The Countryman's Yesterday. London: Pelham Books/ Stephen Greene Press, 1989. 1st ed. "This collection of articles, poems, photographs and sketches draws on the magazine's accumulated treasures to look at the infinite riches of yesterday's countryside." 24cms. x 17.5cms. Pp. 9/176, frontis, b/w illustrations throughout Green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w, price-clipped. VG/G+. GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 US$ 14.16 \| JP¥ 1260] Book number: 28035 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	JEFFERIES, RICHARD. Landscape and Labour. A New Collection of Essays edited by John Pearson with 20 Drawings by Ursula Sieger. Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press, 1979. 1st ed. Eighteen essays and two letters. Pp. 199, 20 line drawings. Green cloth, illustrated d/w. VG/VG. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 18624 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	KAY, URSULA WINIFRED. "He gave us eyes to see them" A Year of Ursula's Nature Diary 1978. Hampshire: Frances Rhodes, Humphrey Kay, Sarah Kay, 1988. 1st ed. A nature diary for 1978. Unpaginated. Illustd. throughout, with coloured pencil drawings. P/b. Illustd. cover. VG. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 6624 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	MABEY, RICHARD. Nature in Your Basket. London: The Readers Digest. 1986. Rep. "Wild plants that you can pick and eat." Pp. 64. Many colour illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+. GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 5 \| JP¥ 445] Book number: 14129 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	NORTH, F.J, CAMPBELL, BRUCE AND SCOTT, RICHENDA. The New Naturalist. Snowdonia. The National Park of North Wales. With 56 colour plates by John Markham and others 48 b/w photos, 6 maps and 26 diagrams. London: Collins,1949. 1st ed. New Naturalist series. Pp.20/469, 56 colour plates( by John Markham and others), 48 b/w photos,6 maps and 26 diagrams, fep absent. Green cloth,slightly sunned with uneven fading. G+. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 26.66 \| JP¥ 2371] Book number: 3323 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	PYE-SMITH, CHARLIE AND ROSE, CHRIS. Crisis and Conservation. Conflict in the British Countryside. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984. 1st.ed. "The authors argue that conservation raises basic political questions about the rights of people to use - and abuse - the land they own. Together, they offer a radical recipe for change which may help us to save our common heritage." Pp. 213, 11 sketch maps, toning to pages, P/b. G+. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 29101 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	STEWARD, B.A. Farm Down the Lane. The Diary of a Suffolk Farmer. (Farm illustrations by F.N. Steward, & frontis by C.W. Taylor). London: Claud Morris Books Ltd, 1946. 1st ed. "A deep and abiding love for the land and the people who live by the land flows through these pages." Pp. 119, b/w frontis, 25 b/w illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Green cloth, illustrated d/w rubbed with edge losses. G+/G-. GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 US$ 14.16 \| JP¥ 1260] Book number: 17703 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	TURING, H.D. Trout Fishing. Volume 6. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1948. 4th ed. "His book is extremely comprehensive, and throughout the novice is given not only advice but the reasoning by which the opinions expressed are arrived at .." Pp. 7/245, frontis, 7 plates, 15 drawings. Green cloth has bleached spots to front, d/w rubbed and chipped. G/G. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 18104 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	VESEY-FITZGERALD, BRIAN. The New Naturalist. British Game. With 28 reproductions in colour and 81 b/w photographs. London: Readers Union,1953. Book club ed. Pp.18/240,28 colour plates, 81 b/w plates, small name to fep. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 3322 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	WALTON, IZAAK. The Compleat Angler. Wood engravings by Gertrude Hermes. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1939. The classic book on Angling. Pp. 247/9(ads), frontis. engraving, 9 engravings. End labels loosely inserted. Toning to pages. Pbk. G. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 9920 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	WHITLOCK, RALPH. Historic Forests of England. Bradford-on-Avon:Moonraker Press, 1979. 1st ed. ".. traces the history of the indigenous forests from earliest times and demonstrates the significant part they have played in English life .." 25cms. x 20.5cms. Pp. 176, 8 colour, 36 b/w illustrations, 12 line drawings + 1 map. Brown cloth, illustrated d/w. VG/VG. GBP 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 12 US$ 17.49 \| JP¥ 1556] Book number: 18366 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.

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	ANON. A Complete Guide to Fishing. Coarse, Sea and Game. London: Marshall Cavendish Books Ltd, 1983. 2nd Printing. Fish, tackle and techniques. A book for enthusiasts of all ages. 23cms. x 15.5cms. Pp. 3/464/4 (Index), 376 colour & 22 b/w photographs, 251 colour & 50 b/w illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Light green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/VG. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 16899 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	BARRETT, HUGH. Early to Rise. A Suffolk Morning. Ipswich, England: Farming Press, 1995. rep. "This is an authentic first-hand account of life as a sixteen-year-old farm pupil in the early 1930s. Tractors had not yet displaced the horses, labour was dirt-cheap and the working day long and hard." Foreword by Ronald Blythe. Drawings by Roderic Barrett. Pp.6/164, with b/w illustratiions throughout. P/b with illustrated cover. G+. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 19095 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	CHRISTIAN, GARTH. The Country Life Countryman's Pocket Book. (Illustrated by C. Dampier Freeman.) London: Country Life Ltd, 1967. 1st ed. "Within this small volume is a vast amount of information designed to deepen understanding of the geological nature of our landscape, the trees, flowers, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibia, butterflies and other insects that the walker or cyclist or motorist may encounter." 15.5cms. x 11.5cms. Pp. 303, over 530 line drawings. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w has 1" tear to top front fold. VG/G. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 28022 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	COLE, PEGGY. Peggy Cole's Country Cottage Companion. (Illustrated by Alfred Geary). Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1988. 1st ed. "Beautifully illustrated, this is a charming gift book on genuine country living, packed with the flavours, colours and aromas of the country garden." Pp. 200, 8 colour plates, 23 b/w line drawings, signed by author to title page. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w. VG/VG. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 \| JP¥ 1482] Book number: 17671 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	DEAKIN, BARTRAM. (COMPILER.) Nothing of the Town. A Countryman's Anthology. (Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.) London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1947. 1st ed. "Mr. Deakin presents a panorama of the countryside, a picture of the country as it is today as well as the rural life of yesterday." Pp. 248, 14 illustrations, inscrip. to fep, uneven toning to endpapers. Green cloth, illustrated d/w has small losses. G+/G. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 25340 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	ELLIS, E.A. The Countryside of East Anglia. Norwich: Jarrold Colour Publications. 1979. "Provides glimpses of a small selection of features interesting to naturalists in the local countryside". Pp. Unpaginated. Full of colour illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 17829 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	FAIERS, ROY. (EDITOR). Evergreen. A Miscellany of This and That and Things Gone By. Vol. 6. No. 3. Autumn, 1990. Cheltenham: Evergreen, 1990. "A country companion for all who love Britain's customs and traditions." Pp. 140. Many col. and b/w. illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 12673 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	GEE, H.L. The Shining Highway. An Account of a Plain Man's Pilgrimage. London: The Epworth Press. 1956. "A book on the English countryside. A charming and restful book to read and keep". Pp 126. Toned pages. P/b. Scuffed spine with small tear to bottom. Illustrated cover. G+. GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.83 \| JP¥ 519] Book number: 18281 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	GLOVER, C. GORDON, & DRABBLE, PHIL. Tom Forrest's Country Calendar. From The Archers. BBC. London: BBC, 1978. 1st ed. Compiled from the original material written for The Archers. Pp. 144. 42 b/w illustns. by Thomas Bewick. P/b. Portrait cover of Bob Arnold as Tom Forest by Michael Hopkinson. VG. GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.83 \| JP¥ 519] Book number: 6368 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	HAINES, GEORGE H. Whose Countryside? London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1973. 1st ed. "The message of Whose Countryside? is this: It is more important to maintain the economic and social life of the countryside than to preserve particular stones, buildings or 'views'". Pp. 124. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, illustd. d/w, price clipped, slight sunning to spine, chipping to back wrap. G/G. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 11364 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	HALL, CHRISTOPHER. (EDITOR.) The Countryman's Yesterday. London: Pelham Books/ Stephen Greene Press, 1989. 1st ed. "This collection of articles, poems, photographs and sketches draws on the magazine's accumulated treasures to look at the infinite riches of yesterday's countryside." 24cms. x 17.5cms. Pp. 9/176, frontis, b/w illustrations throughout Green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w, price-clipped. VG/G+. GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 US$ 14.16 \| JP¥ 1260] Book number: 28035 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	JEFFERIES, RICHARD. Landscape and Labour. A New Collection of Essays edited by John Pearson with 20 Drawings by Ursula Sieger. Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press, 1979. 1st ed. Eighteen essays and two letters. Pp. 199, 20 line drawings. Green cloth, illustrated d/w. VG/VG. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 18624 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	KAY, URSULA WINIFRED. "He gave us eyes to see them" A Year of Ursula's Nature Diary 1978. Hampshire: Frances Rhodes, Humphrey Kay, Sarah Kay, 1988. 1st ed. A nature diary for 1978. Unpaginated. Illustd. throughout, with coloured pencil drawings. P/b. Illustd. cover. VG. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 6624 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	MABEY, RICHARD. Nature in Your Basket. London: The Readers Digest. 1986. Rep. "Wild plants that you can pick and eat." Pp. 64. Many colour illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+. GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 5 \| JP¥ 445] Book number: 14129 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	NORTH, F.J, CAMPBELL, BRUCE AND SCOTT, RICHENDA. The New Naturalist. Snowdonia. The National Park of North Wales. With 56 colour plates by John Markham and others 48 b/w photos, 6 maps and 26 diagrams. London: Collins,1949. 1st ed. New Naturalist series. Pp.20/469, 56 colour plates( by John Markham and others), 48 b/w photos,6 maps and 26 diagrams, fep absent. Green cloth,slightly sunned with uneven fading. G+. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 26.66 \| JP¥ 2371] Book number: 3323 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	PYE-SMITH, CHARLIE AND ROSE, CHRIS. Crisis and Conservation. Conflict in the British Countryside. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984. 1st.ed. "The authors argue that conservation raises basic political questions about the rights of people to use - and abuse - the land they own. Together, they offer a radical recipe for change which may help us to save our common heritage." Pp. 213, 11 sketch maps, toning to pages, P/b. G+. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 29101 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	STEWARD, B.A. Farm Down the Lane. The Diary of a Suffolk Farmer. (Farm illustrations by F.N. Steward, & frontis by C.W. Taylor). London: Claud Morris Books Ltd, 1946. 1st ed. "A deep and abiding love for the land and the people who live by the land flows through these pages." Pp. 119, b/w frontis, 25 b/w illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Green cloth, illustrated d/w rubbed with edge losses. G+/G-. GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 US$ 14.16 \| JP¥ 1260] Book number: 17703 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	TURING, H.D. Trout Fishing. Volume 6. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1948. 4th ed. "His book is extremely comprehensive, and throughout the novice is given not only advice but the reasoning by which the opinions expressed are arrived at .." Pp. 7/245, frontis, 7 plates, 15 drawings. Green cloth has bleached spots to front, d/w rubbed and chipped. G/G. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 18104 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	VESEY-FITZGERALD, BRIAN. The New Naturalist. British Game. With 28 reproductions in colour and 81 b/w photographs. London: Readers Union,1953. Book club ed. Pp.18/240,28 colour plates, 81 b/w plates, small name to fep. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 3322 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	WALTON, IZAAK. The Compleat Angler. Wood engravings by Gertrude Hermes. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1939. The classic book on Angling. Pp. 247/9(ads), frontis. engraving, 9 engravings. End labels loosely inserted. Toning to pages. Pbk. G. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 9920 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.
	WHITLOCK, RALPH. Historic Forests of England. Bradford-on-Avon:Moonraker Press, 1979. 1st ed. ".. traces the history of the indigenous forests from earliest times and demonstrates the significant part they have played in English life .." 25cms. x 20.5cms. Pp. 176, 8 colour, 36 b/w illustrations, 12 line drawings + 1 map. Brown cloth, illustrated d/w. VG/VG. GBP 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 12 US$ 17.49 \| JP¥ 1556] Book number: 18366 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books.