Author: Richard Jefferies
Title: The Open Air
Description: London, J. M. Dent and Sons , 1920. Cloth. Pocket sized short story anthology by Richard Jefferies illustrative of country life, complete with the very scarce dust wrapper for this edition. A collection of essays concerning natural history and rural life. Written by Richard Jefferies, originally published in 1885. Painting vivid pictures of the countryside and agricultural life of Victorian society.Second printing of this edition, originally appeared in 1914. Featuring a coloured frontispiece. Complete with very scarce dust wrapper for this edition, unclipped but lacking the spine.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly chipped to head and tail of spine, back strip darkened; with a minor creasing to lower corner rear board. Dust wrapper with shelf wear and chipping to extremities, complete loss of spine, general soiling. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Good Only.

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