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SCENE IN SUSSEX A Fresh Look at the Countryside

By: LEWIS , Ralph

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, The Research Publishing Co: 1973

Seller ID: 118429

ISBN: 070500015x

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: VG

SIGNED Copy.Larger format H/b+jacket VG/VG.1973 2nd.imp.Ralph Lewis - from Early times / Saxon / Roman / Saints & Sinners / Windmills / gardens / characters / follies etc , illustrated 17 b/w plates.[book few minor spotted markings to eggshell cloth gilt titles, tight binding, no inscsp, clean throughout] Dust Jacketprice clipped, some fading , 20mm closed line-tear to top frontwith assoc.crease+ 4x4mm small top loss - in a clear protective cover. PLS see our image
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THE FOLKLORE CALENDAR

By: LONG , George ,

Price: £15.00

Publisher: UK, PHILIP ALLAN: 1930

Seller ID: 124378

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: Very Good

VG H/b in Original Cloth Binding.1st ed.1930.Annual Traditional Festivities from Up-Heey-Aa - to Festive Mummers, & all in-between.[ Wassailing, Tichborne Dole , Hocktide at Hungerford etc ]Well illustrated b/w photo-plates [ Longparish Mummers, Morris Dancers , MIdsummer-Stonehenge, Romany children & Gypsies at Fairs , Shoeing the Colt , Holy Wells etc ] tight binding, no inscsp, fox tan to end papers & foredge. 240pp+ 4pp publisher adverts.225x145mm. [ Oatmeal cloth covers respectfully clean & tidy with minor small marks. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
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INVESTIGATING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Sources for Local Historians

By: LORD , Evelyn , PhD History

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Stroud, TEMPUS: 1999

Seller ID: 10450

ISBN: 0752414267

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: Fine

FINE H/b in FINE D/j [ price clipped].1st edi. illustrated Colour & b/w plates. E Lord PhD History - University Lecturer - Course Director for Master of Studies in English Local History & Academic Development Officer for local history.Preface, Intro;.9 chpts - photographs , Maps , Documents [ how many people - births ,deaths / Health / Housing / Education / Law / Entertainment / transport / 2 World Wars / the countryside... ] Comprehensive Guide.[ black cloth gilt titles, book as new, No inscsp] Please see our actual image of the book offered for sale.
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WHAT COUNTRY WOMEN USE

By: LOUISE HOWARD & BERYL HEARNDEN (EDITORS)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: LONDON, GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN Ltd: 1939

Seller ID: 121155

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Black Cloth Boards with red titles to spine and front board. 220 x 145 mm approx. 104 pp. 18 illustrations as called for. Vol VI of a series of books published for "The Associated Country Women of the World" of Baker Street London W1 with list of Constituent and Corresponding Societies to rear. Subject matter is the employment of natural products and craftsmanship and "thinking outside the box" to produce articles for use in the home when access to mass produced items is not within reach or the pocket of the consumer. ie Flax, Cotton Hemp, Hides ,skins, Animal products, Vegetab...
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EAGLES

By: LOVE , John A , Eagle Specialist , Zoology University Graduate etc

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Whittet Books: 1989

Seller ID: 121086

ISBN: 0905483790

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Laminated H/b VG.1st ed. [ Internal Fine / external fine apart from fade to spine area.No inscsp. JA Love , Graduate of Zoology from Aberdeen University - since 1975 he has worked with Sea Eagles for Nature Conservancy - for 10 years on the Isle of rum, Scotland , studied Golden Eagles - a wildlife author & Eagle specialist.Comprehensive Book. classification / legal / eyrie / identification / pellets / meals / death causes / seasons / radio-tagged / Folklore & myth / organisations / restocking / further reading etc .] b/w illus book& illus.end papers. Please see our images of the actual book o...
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OUT OF A CLEAR SKY ESSAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT BIRDS

By: LUCAS , E V

Price: £6.00

Publisher: LONDON, METHUEN: 1928

Seller ID: 2189

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: VG

Hard Back-1st ed.,130 pp.+ one page "Child's Song"+ one page of Note, Light blue patterned paper covered boards with red cloth quarter binding and laid on paper title block to spine., neat ink inscsp to fep ,a very clean sound copy ,A charming frontispiece drawing by J.A.Shepherd with tissue guard., boards repectably clean with small indent to top edge[ from string binding? ][title block intact and clean] PLs see our image
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MOTHER NATURE'S GARDEN How Plants Live , Stories about Special Plants , The Mother Nature series no 4

By: LUCAS , Jane

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, FREDERICK WARNE & Co.Ltd: 1931

Seller ID: 119646

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: VG

Small limp-cloth VG P/b in Poor D/j.1931.1st ed.Mother Nature Series, no 4.Jane Lucas. 64pp.larger font text print.illustrated 4 colour & 4 b/w plates plus in line. Younger child reader.[olive cloth with black decs & titles to front & spine ,VG, no inscsp, tight binding ] Dust Jacket not price clipped, 1/-. handling soil / light stains to rear, small crease front corner . edgewear col.rub/fade/loss, 2 nicks top rear,main loss top front corner. now in clear easily Removable proprietary protective cover . Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
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CRICKET Old and New , A Straight Talk to Young Players

By: MACLAREN , A C , Cricketer

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, LONGMANS , GREEN and Co.: 1924

Seller ID: 119920

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: Good

1st ed.1924.211pp .An authority - Cricketer AC Maclaren - first palyed for Harrow - then County & International matches.20 chpts " if all were well with English cricket there would be no necessity for this book" [ not much changes over time] old methods / batting as it should be / bowling / fielding / captaincy / umpiring / coaching etc. illustrated 29 b/w photographic plates. [ green boards, black titles, hardly visible erased name to fep [ 1st blank page] tight binding, sporadic fox spotting throughout book heavier towards the end, browned foredge. clean covers with minor spot col ru...
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THE MISTRESS OF STANTONS FARM

By: MARCUS WOODWARD

Price: £15.00

Publisher: LONDON, HEATH CRANTON: 1938

Seller ID: 123883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Brick Red Cloth Boards with dark brown titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. 204 pp. Frontis + 10 ten other illustrations on 7 plates all as called for. With an introduction by Arthur Beckett founder and editor of The Sussex County Magazine; this is a memoir of Susannah Hooker Stacey better known as "Granma", a remarkable woman; cook, counsellor, friend of the poor and sick; a healer through her herbal potions; a curious mix of well-bred Victorian lady and White Witch. She ran away from home to marry William Stacey of Stantons Farm East Chiltington. East Sussex and is buried at St Mart...
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SNOW BEARS

By: MARTIN WADDELL , FOX-DAVIES , Sarah ,

Price: £1.00

Publisher: London, Walker Books Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 122332

ISBN: 074459488x

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Very Good

VG P/b [ Internal Story pages Fine ] Large Square Slim.vol.This Book Belongs To left Blank. Title pages a little creased, elese no notable faults, no inscsp. no annotation, no crayon.A festive winter animal tale for the younger child with large, charming illustration.Larger slim Vol. Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
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FARMER DUCK

By: MARTIN WADDELL , HELEN OXENBURY ,

Price: £5.00

Publisher: LONDON, Walker Books Ltd: 1991

Seller ID: 121414

ISBN: 0744519284

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated boards matching the dust jacket. 255 x 240 mm approx. Illustrated end papers. Unpaginated (32 pp) First Edition 1st printing of this funny, uplifting and thoroughly entertaining fable for the younger child . Illustrated with a blend of humour and pathos unique to Helen Oxenbury. VG/VG (Book- light wear to bottom edges of boards and mild bumps to corners. No previous owner name or iinsc. Dust Jacket - Minor rubbing to extremities, no nicks or tears and non price clipped. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
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A WEXFORD CHILDHOOD 1915-1930

By: MARY FINN

Price: £8.00

Publisher: BALLSBRIDGE DUBLIN, LISSADELL: 1998

Seller ID: 123966

ISBN: 1897922043

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Laminated Card Covers, 215 x 155 mm approx.( x) + 84 pp. Personal reminiscences from an octogenarian of an idyllic childhood spent in rural Ireland during the inter war years. A moving and highly evocative account, the Original Manuscript of which has been added to the Archive of the Department of Irish Folklore, University of Dublin. Near Covers- negligible shelf rubbing. Book block clean with no previous owner name or insc. Binding sound). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
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THE GREAT SKIPTON SHOW

By: MASON , Roger , [ Skipton Born ]

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, PETER DAVIES Ltd: 1979

Seller ID: 123381

ISBN: 0432092110

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: Near Fine

H/b+ D/j Both Near FINE. The great Skipton Agricultural show of yesteryear, farming & country events of a bygone era - yesteryear country fairs.Skipton born R Mason - Queen's College , Oxford - later very interested in architecture & local history - town planner & teacher. [The Dales / Eller Beck / Gran Bargh / the Red Lord / Port & Ale / Butter / Pipe-drawing etc ] illus. 8 b/w photo-plates & earlier plan-map, No inscsp. paper white fine throughout , book as new but a slight spine lean [ Dust Jacket price clipped, tiny top spine wrinkle] Please see our images of the actual book offered for sa...
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THE TINKLER-GYPSIES

By: McCORMICK, ANDREW

Price: £125.00

Publisher: DUMFRIES, J MAXWELL: 1907

Seller ID: 118303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Red bevel edged cloth boards with yellow and black illustration to front board, gilt titles to spine, 185x130mm approx. xxiv + 538pp +xxx + 1 page advert for the Gypsy Lore Society.B/W line drawing to title page, many photographic illustrations and fold out map.Introduction by John Sampson. First published in Dec 1906 to much acclaimas "The Tinkler-Gypsies of Galloway this is the 2nd Impression of Dec 1907 which was revised and amended throughout with additional photographic illustrations and two new chapters included being "A Scotch Gypsy Village" and "Tinklers' Bairns." T...
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A PATTERN of HUNDREDS

By: Members of the Buckinghamshire W.I.Federation

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Buckinghamshire, RICHARD SADLER Ltd / Buckinghamshire Federation Women's Institutes: 1975

Seller ID: 123186

ISBN: 0854100660

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: VG+

VG+ P/b Internal Fine, no inscsp.Laminate cover. Forward by Sir John Betjeman. A record of yesteryear life in the Hundred's' 50 or more years ago. Compiled from Recollections & Source material submitted by members of The Bucks Federation of Women's Institutes. Ashendon , Aylesbury , Buckingham , Burnham , Cottslowe , Desborough, Newport , V111 Stoke - Hundreds. b/w illus. in line + maps [very minor edge/shelf-wear ].Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
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PATCHWORK , Country Crafts

By: MOODY , MARY , Experienced Patchwork Quilter

Price: £3.95

Publisher: London, BLOOMSBURY Books: 1993

Seller ID: 359

ISBN: 1854711164

Condition: Fine

Book fine in fine dust jacketCountry Crafts Series.Patchwork by M Moody an Experienced Patchwork Quilter & respected craft writer.48 pp.Chapters on History of Patchwork Tools, Materials, Techniques of the Craft Finishing , a Beginner's Project. [ Colour illustrated, no inscsp, not clipped] PLS See our image
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GOOD HUSBANDRY

By: MOORE , H I , MSc PhD NDA Dip Agr[Cantab]

Price: £2.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd: 1946

Seller ID: 117878

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: Poor+

Expert advice on good husbandry by HI Moore MSc PhD NDA Dip Agr[Cantab] ,1946[.maintenance fertility silage grass protein livestock the labour etc ]illustrated 50 b/w photographic plates. A Read only copy . no no inscsp., no annotaion, tight binding,1st blank page top corner cut away.[?]Graded poor+ because of exterior heavily fox tan spotted with fading.gilt titles to spine & front.A wealth of practical information, 107pp+ 4pp advertisement [ not a library book] Please see our actual images of the book offered for sale.
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RARE BIRDS OF THE WORLD A Collins / International Council for Bird Preservation Handbook

By: MOUNTFORT, GUY

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Massachusetts USA, STEPHEN GREENE Press: 1989

Seller ID: 1673

ISBN: 0828907196

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: Fine

FINE H/b in Near FINE D/j.1st ed.Larger format. 256pp. 32 Colour platets+ 50+ in line, by Artist Norman Arlott. A Collins/ ICCBP Handbook of the 1,000 Spieces of birds at most Risk from Extinction. The book deals with each Zoogeographical Region - each species described in detail, their historical distribution, reason for decline & measures currently being taken to bring them back from the brink. [Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine+jacket. tight binding, no inscsp]col illus D/j not price clipped,$29.95,No tears/nicks/creasing. No notable defects to book; dust jacket top margin just start...
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FRESH WOODS

By: NIALL , Ian , GREG , Barara

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd: 1951

Seller ID: 9954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG

VG H/b. Good D/j.1st ed. Brown cloth , Gilt lettering to spine+ front .122pp. illustrated Wood Engravings by Artist Barbara Greg - frontis+ 3 Full- page+many more within text , . Nature and nostalgia ; as beautifully written , illustrated and produced as the author's "Poacher's Handbook" (The Sketch) (book- a little shelf wear, Ink inscsp.to initial blank page ffep,creamed pages , Binding sound ] Dust Jacket not clipped, publisher price label to spine - first cheap edition 5/-.. edgewear col/rub/loss/nicks.paper fox tanning. now in clear easily Removable proprietary protective cover ....
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The COMPLETE BOOK of PATCHWORK & QUILTING

By: Numerous Quilter's Guild Specialists

Price: £4.95

Publisher: Tunbridge Wells, Search Press Ltd: 1992

Seller ID: 121106

ISBN: 085532743X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Fine

FINE Large laminated P/b.1st ed.Comprehensive Needlework / Embroidery book by numerous Quilter's Guild Specialists & Experienced Patchworkers.Country Crafts.160pp. Colour illustrated,Cut-out templates, Step by Step Practical.[No inscsp, not clipped]Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
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