Green, John

A countryman's year Reflections of a village parson.

Sevenoaks: J Salmon Ltd, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound landscape format hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is lightly rubbed at the top edge. 96 pages, illustrated by, photos, black and white and colour drawings in the text.. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 69326

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Charles Tunnicliffe Birds Ornithology Artists Country Life Farming Kent

Grey of Fallodon, Viscount (preface)

The open air year: an anthology of the seasons selected from The Times.

The Times Publishing Company, Ltd, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with yellow titles, boards cocked, cloth rubbed at corners and spine, W. H. Smith library label on front pastedown but no other marks or inscriptions. xii + 242 pages, 20 photos on plates. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 61053

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Countryside Farming Field Sports Britain

Harman, Richard (Compiler)

Countryside mood: contributions from Adrian Bell, Henry Williamson, H.J. Massingham, Frances Pitt and J. Wentworth Day plus others.

Blandford Press Ltd, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with a gift inscription on the front endpaper, in an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped at the edges and has a small area of loss at the top of the tanned spine with marks on the back cover. 208 pages, photos on plates, illustrations in the text by Joan Rickarby. Good in Fair dust jacket.

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Book number: 68356

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Farming Countryside World War 2 England

Hartley, Dorothy

Lost World: England 1933 - 1936.

Prospect Books, 2012. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased but repaired tear between front cover and spine, title page excised. 304 pages, photos in the text. Fair.

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Book number: 53092

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Social History Daily Sketch

Hastings, Macdonald & Street, A. G.

Country Fair: Vol 1 July - December 1951.

The Aldworth Press Ltd, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with gilt titles, spine lightly sunned, no inscriptions apart from 2 crosswords partly completed in pencil. Approx 100 pages per issue, photos on plates, illustrations in the text, index. Articles by BB, Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, Constance Spry and Jack Hargreaves plus specials on Sussex, Wiltshire, Lancashire, Devon, Kent & Northamptonshire. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued.

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Book number: 55624

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Denys J Watkins-Pitchford Fishing Farming Shooting

Hastings, Macdonald & Street, A. G.

Country Fair: Vol 1 July - December 1951, with, Vol 2 January - June 1952 (2 books).

The Aldworth Press Ltd, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 clean hardbacks bound in green cloth with gilt titles, spines sunned, bindings split and foxed, Vol 1 base of spine pulled, no inscriptions apart from crosswords partially or completely completed. Approx 100 pages per issue, photos on plates, illustrations in the text, index. Vol 2: articles by Constance Spry, Thomas Firbank and Jack Hargreaves plus specials on the West Riding, Montgomery & Gloucestershire. Heavy set so additional postage may be requested. Fair with No dust jacket as issued.

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Book number: 67257

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Denys J Watkins-Pitchford Fishing Farming Shooting

Heiney, Paul

George Soper's horses: a celebration of the English working horse.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, large landscape format, tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 144 pages, many illustrations in the text, bibliography. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 69037

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Heavy Horses Farming Cart horses

Home, Michael

This string first.

Rich & Cowan, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good tightly bound hardback, with a short inscription on the second (blank) endpaper and the pink cloth has generally faded, in a very attractive unclipped dustjacket which is lightly chipped at the corners and spine ends, has been neatly internally strengthened with archival tape. Dustjacket artwork is by Tansley, and is the second state, with an advert for a book not published until 1940 on the rear panel (book is a first printing, and the book and jacket appear to have been together for a very long time). xii + 304 pages + adverts, map endpapers. A very nice copy of the third novel by this very talented author [real name Charlie Christmas Bush (1888-1973) who also wrote crime novels as Christopher Bush] again with a Breckland setting. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 33816

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Breckland Norfolk Farming

Home, Michael

This string first.

Rich & Cowan, 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good tightly bound hardback, red cloth has abraded at the bottom edge, no inscriptions, in a bright priceclipped dustjacket (repriced at 4/3d by the publishers) which is lightly chipped at the corners and has a nick approx 1" x 1" at the top edge of the rear panel, has been neatly internally strengthened with archival tape. Dustjacket artwork is uncredited - has a large figure of a man in a top hat in the foreground. xii + 304 pages + adverts, map endpapers. A very nice copy of the third novel by this very talented author [real name Charlie Christmas Bush (1888-1973) who also wrote crime novels as Christopher Bush] again with a Breckland setting. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 33925

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Breckland Norfolk Farming

Jefferies, Richard

The gamekeeper at home Sketches of natural history and rural life.

Cambridge: Smith, Elder & Co. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with gilt titles and decration, cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends, page edges lightly foxed, remains of a name at top of title page. viii + 216 pages. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 69246

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Country Life Natural History Nature Poaching Shooting

Jefferies, Richard

The open air.

Chatto & Windus, 1908. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with gilt titles and decoration, boards bumped at top corners, spine tanned, page edges foxed, gift inscription on second front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. xii + 234 pages, 12 colour illustrations on plates by Ruth Dollman, illustrated endpapers. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 68933

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Countryside Bird Watching Downland Rural Life Nature

Ketteridge, Christopher & Mays, Spike

Five miles from Bunkum: a village and its crafts.

Eyre Methuen, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean and tightly bound book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is a little faded at the spine. 208 pages, 31 photos on 12 plates, illustrations in the text, map endpapers, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 63198

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Saffron Walden Haverhill Essex Ashdon Farming

Kitchen, Fred

Nettleworth Parva.

J. M. Dent & Sons, 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in orange cloth with silver gilt titles, no inscriptions. 144 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 59863

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Agricultural bygones Derbyshire Farming Dialect Countryside

Kitchen, Fred

The ploughman homeward plods.

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean, tightly bound book with a name and address plus a comment on the book's purchase on the front pastedown, remains of label on half title page, possibly replacement front endpaper, in an unclipped dustjacket. Dustjacket is by BB (Denys Watkins Pitchford). Fair in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 67597

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Denys J Watkins-Pitchford Farming Agricultural bygones

Lloyd, Jack Ivester

Up the ladder and down the wall.

Kineton: Roundwood Press, 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright price clipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 164 pages, illustrations at chapter headings. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 66471

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Washbrook English Country Life Biography Childhood Buckinghamshire