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| ASHBY, M. K. Joseph Ashby ofTysoe 1859 - 1919 : a Study of English Village Life London, Cambridge at the University Press. 1961, First Edition. (ISBN: B0017WK8PC) Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex- lib, 302 pp including index. Ex-lib with usual imperfections. Generally a good working. Good/No Jacket. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: kw6889 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| DUKE OF BEDFORD The Story of a Great Agricultural Estate. Being the Story of the Origin and Administration of Woburn and Thorney London, John Murray. 1897, First Edition. Hardback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Faded green boards. Bumped and creased to the boards. Spine is slightly cocked and creased bumped to head and tail. Contents clean and bright. With tables of expenditure for the estates. 254pp. + 2pp publisher's advertisements. Good. GBP 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.75 US$ 46.31 | JP¥ 3984] Book number: 502426 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| BLAKEMORE, ANNE Rich is My Heritage London, Lutterworth Press. 1942, First Edition. Cloth with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dustwrapper has been mended with tape, otherwise a very good copy of this book dealing with the experiences of the author and her husband farming in the Cotswolds before WW2. 278pp, 21 b&w illustrations. Very Good/Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 000303 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| BLAKEMORE, ANNE Rich is My Heritage London, Lutterworth Press. 1942, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dustwrapper has been mended with tape, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this book dealing with the experiences of the author and her husband farming in the Cotswolds before WW2. 278pp, 21 b&w illustrations. Good/Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: kw00303 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| BOWMAN, F. H. The Structure of the Cotton Fibre in Its Relation to Technical applications London, MacMillan & Company. 1908, First Edition. Hard Cover , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Ex- Lib, 470 pp including index. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. Ex-lib with usual stamps and signs of wear. Topand bottom of spine frayed. Generally a sound copy. Good. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55 US$ 82.7 | JP¥ 7114] Book number: kw6355 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| CAMERON, A D Go Listen to the Crofters, the Napier Commision & Crofting a Century Ago Stornoway, Acair Ltd. 1997. (ISBN: 0861520637) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Minor creasing to covers and a fold on the back cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Deals with the Napier Commission which travelled round the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the 1880s interviewing crofters and cottars. 132pp, b&w illustrations. Good/No Jacket. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 | JP¥ 1423] Book number: 003494 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| CLOUT, HUGH D. Rural Geography: An Introductory Survey Oxford, Pergamon Press. 1972. (ISBN: 0080170420) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 204 pp including index. Some sunning & signs of wear to covers. Owner name inside covered with white label. Generally a sound clean copy. Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: kw6488 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| CONDIE, ALLAN T The Ferguson Album Nuneaton, Allan T Condie Publications. 1993. (ISBN: 0907742831) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Previous owner's name at the top of the front cover and inside same, some discolouration to the inside covers where the ink from the illustrations has rubbed off, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover illustrated book dealing with the Ferguson tractors from the 1920s to the 1970s. 128pp, b&w illustrations throughout. Good/No Jacket. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22 US$ 33.08 | JP¥ 2846] Book number: 003495 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| CROSBY, TRAVIS L. English Farmers and the Politics of Protection, 1815-52 Sussex, Harvester Press. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0855271167) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 224 pp including index. Dust jacket is worn & rubbed but otherwise the book is in vwry good condition. Very Good/Worn dust wrapper. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: kw6467 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| DULEY, ARTHUR; & LUSTED, ANDREW (EDITOR) Arthur Duley: The Story of a Southdown Shepherd, Told By Himself Andrew Lusted. 1988, First Thus. Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Previous owner's name written at the top of the front cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this small book, being the life-story of Arthur Duley, who worked as a shepherd in Sussex between the 1880s and the 1920s. Originally printed in the Sussex County Magazine in 1931, this is a 1988 reprint with some biographical notes by the editor. 48pp, 14 b&w illustrations.. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 002733 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| CASTLE, MALCOLM, E AND WATKINS, PAUL Modern Milk Production. Its Principles and Applications for students and Farmers. London, Faber and Faber. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0571113125) Hardback with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Spine is cocked and a little bumped, some slight blemishes to the front board. Some bumps to the corners of the boards. Very small bookseller stamp on fep. Some foxing to outer page edges. Very minor foxing to prelims, o/wise very good. 44 b&w. photog. plates and numerous tables and figures. 309pp inc. appendices and indices. Dustjacket has very minor wear some creases, no tears. Very Good/Good. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22 US$ 33.08 | JP¥ 2846] Book number: 502192 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| EVANS, GEORGE EWART The Pattern Under the Plough, Aspects of the Folk-Life of East Anglia London, Faber and Faber. 1971. (ISBN: 0571089771) Soft Cover , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Gentleman, David. 1971 Faber paperback edition. A good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book in which the author looks at rural life in East Anglia up to the early twentieth century. 269pp, some b&w drawings. Good/No Jacket. GBP 3.20 [Appr.: EURO 3.75 US$ 5.29 | JP¥ 455] Book number: 004109 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| FITE, GILBERT C. American Farmers. The New Minority Bloomington, Usa, Indiana University Press. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0253301823) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, Accessible study of economic, social, technological changes which have les the once majority farmers of America to be seen as a minority group. Front endpaper has been torn out. 10 pages of b&w. llustrations. 265pp including index. Contents good. Ex-lib with the usual blemishes. Fair/Fair. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 | JP¥ 711] Book number: 501104 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| GODDARD, NICHOLAS Harvests of Change. The Royal Agriculture Society of England 1838-1988 London, Quiller Press. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0907621961) Hardback with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bumped/creased corners & spine. B&w. & other ills. 359pp, index, bib apps. Dj. price clipped, creased. Very Good/Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: 502761 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| HUNTER, GUY; BUNTING, A.H.; BOTTRALL, ANTHONY Policy and Practice in Rural Development: Proceedings of the Second International Seminar on Change in Agriculture, Reading, 9-19 September 1974 London, Croom Helm [for] the Overseas Development Institute. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0856641340) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 520 pp including index. Corners bumped, part of fep missind, date 1976 written on spine of book & jacket otherwise in very good, tight clean condition. Good/Good. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 | JP¥ 1423] Book number: kw5548 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| COOMBS, PHILIP H. ; AHMED, MANZOOR Attacking Rural Poverty Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press. 1974. (ISBN: 0801816017) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex- lib, 292 pp including index. Ex -lib with few stamps. Covers are worn and browning but generally a sound working copy. Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: kw6489 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| STAPLEY, J. H. ; GAYNER, F. C. H. World Crop Protection London, Iliffe. 1969, First Edition. (ISBN: 0592000354) Hard Cover with dust jacket, Small 4to. Ex- lib, Volume 1 Pests and Diseases. 270 pp including index. Library marks on fep, dust wrapper a little crumpled otherwise in good sound condition. Good/Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 | JP¥ 1138] Book number: kw6227 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| HALL, A. J Cotton-Cellulose London, Ernest Benn Ltd. 1924, First Edition. (ISBN: B000XCXEE4) Hard Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library, 228 pp including index plus adverts.Ex-lib with usual stamps, labels and some signs of use but otherwise in a sound clean condition. Good/No Jacket. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55 US$ 82.7 | JP¥ 7114] Book number: 8000 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| HOLDERREAD, DAVE Raising the Home Duck Flock Pownal, Vermont, Storey. 1995. (ISBN: 0882661698) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book dealing with how to keep domestic ducks for eggs and meat. 174pp, some b&w illustrations and 22 charts. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 14.06 | JP¥ 1209] Book number: 004153 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| IVENS, G W East African Weeds and Their Control Nairobi, Kenya, Oxford University Press. 1990. (ISBN: 0195725301) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor creasing to the spine, otherwise a very good copy of this soft-cover book dealing with agricultural weeds found in East Africa (Kenya) and the methods of chemical control. 289pp, b&w line drawings throughout. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 13.75 US$ 20.68 | JP¥ 1779] Book number: 002287 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| IVENS, G W; MOODY, K; & EGUNJOBI, J K West African Weeds Ibadan, Nigeria, Oxford University Press. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0195752848) Printer Wrapper , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Spine quite badly creased, and with some minor wear to the green card covers. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book dealing with the agricultural weeds found in West Africa (mostly Western Nigeria). 225pp, b&w line drawings throughout. Good/No Jacket. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 | JP¥ 1423] Book number: 002288 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| JAMIESON, LYNN; & TOYNBEE, CLAIRE Country Bairns, Growing Up 1900-1930 Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0748603735) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor creasing to the top edge of the unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the lives of children in rural areas of Scotland in first three decades of the twentieth century. Based on interviews carried out with elderly people in 1986. Looks at the lives of children of Crofters, Farm Workers, and Farmers. 245pp, some b&w illustrations. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.89 | JP¥ 1281] Book number: 003493 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| JESSOPP, AUGUSTUS Arcady for Better For Worse London, T Fisher Unwin. 1887. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth-covered boards are generally worn all the way round, with the spine band starting to come away at the top lh side, but gilt title and picture of a plough on the front board are still bright. Hinge is split inside front and back cover. A previous owner's armorial bookplate on f/ep. So not-all-that-good condition externally, but internally a reasonably clean tight copy of this book dealing mostly with rural life and poverty in Norfolk in the late nineteenth century. The author was an Anglican priest, being Rector of parish of Scarning near East Dedreham, Norfolk . 251pp, 2 b&w plates (one of the author ''A Shepherd of Arcady'', the other of a local tramp ''A Swain of Arcady''). Poor/No Jacket. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 | JP¥ 1423] Book number: 002591 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| LANGER, R.H.M. (EDITS) Pastures and Pasture Plants Wellington, A.H. & A. W. Reed. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 0589007475) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, Textbook scientific book concerning pasture and pasture plants in Australia and New Zealand. Grasses, clovers, legumes etc. Contents clean and bright. Extensively illustrated with figures and tables. 428pp including index. Ex-lib copy with minimal stamps. Fair/Fair. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 | JP¥ 854] Book number: 501105 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. | ||
| MACLELLAN, ANGUS The Furrow Behind Me, the Autobiography of a Hebridean Crofter London, The Country Book Club. 1963. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Country Book Club edition. Minor creasing to the dges of the dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, being the author's autobiography. He was born on South Uist in 1869, worked as an agricultural labourer on various farms on the Scottish mainland between 1889 and 1902, and then returned home to work as a crofter. Originally printed in 1962, this is the 1963 Country Book Club edition. 202pp, 10 b&w illustrations. Very Good/Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 | JP¥ 854] Book number: 003338 Click here to order or inquire at M.E. McCarty, Bookseller. |
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