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By: ARSCOTT , David , Researched in Lewes with Microphone & Camera
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Stroud,Gloucester, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 123352
SIGNED Copy.VG+ P/b.1st.Lewes, the South Downs, Sussex.THe author hexplored the town & recorded the thoughts & experiences of the Lewes follk from all walks of life; and covering a wealth of different trades & industries.From central High Street to the fringes of the town. A vivid celebration of today's community.Profusely illustrated B/w photo-plates.[ mild top edge corner crease continuing top edge following 2 pages, fine throughout, Signed, in name only, by the autho... View more info
By: ARTHUR BECKETT , Historian & Co-Founder South Downs Soc.
Price: £60.00
Publisher: LONDON, METHUEN: 1909
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 123547
Publisher's Original Decorative cloth boards, 225 x 145 mm approx. xvi + 366 + 40pp publisher's catalogue for March 1909. Colour Frontis + 19 other full colour plates by Stanley Inchbold as called for. First Edition 1st printing of this collectible book on the Downs written by a prominent local historian and co founder of the South Downs Society. Good (Book- Covers colour rubbed with a little fraying of cloth to head and tail of spine and tiny nick to head probably from ... View more info
By: CAMDEN, WILLIAM (TRANSLATOR PHILEMON HOLLAND)
Price: £185.00
Publisher: REIGATE SURREY, PRIVATE: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition Thus
Seller ID: 117985
Black Leather half binding with olive cloth sides, and gilt titles to spine. Signed binding by W H Smith and Son. 260x200mm approx. 65 nos. pp printed on laid paper with grey laid paper end papers. Colophon of :- The Reigate Press 30th September 1905. A Private press established by William Bernard Adeney and John Madden at South Park Reigate. The title to the book as it appears on the handsomely designed title page with wood block shields of the counties and principal to... View more info
By: DELORME , Mary , DELORME , Jon ,
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Robert Hale Ltd: 1987
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 120757
H/b+D/j both FINE as new really yet jacket too tall for the book hence a wrinkling to top edges.not clipped.No inscsp.inner flaps starting to fox tan spot.Social History, country ways , a miscellana - anthology of interesting facts.illustrated over b/w 60 plates & 2 Maps of current day and Speede map of 1610.[ Lewes / Hastings / Glyndebourne / Northiam / Pyecombe / Tangmere etc.] [ Martello Tower / Mad Jack's Pyramid / Cathedral of the Downs / Amberley Wild Brooks / Dick... View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Sussex, D D Publishing: 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 122388
FINE P/b.144pp.L d' Harcourt.Social History & History of coastal seaside village edge South Downs Sussex - Rottingdean [ Rudyard Kipling, Bob Copper . ] illustrated b/w plates & in line.[ Laminated p/b, Fine, no inscsp ] Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale. View more info
By: MAIS , S.P.B. , DIXON-SCOTT , J ,
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, The Richards Press: 1963
Seller ID: 120153
Pocket Guide book to Sussex by renouned S.P.B. Mias.illus.Listed b/w plates by J Dixon-Scott.Frontis; Stopham Bridge.255pp.Preface.[ The coast from Bosham - Southwick - & Portslade to Rye ] the Downs Eastbourne to Edburton - Harting.[The Weald , Rother Henfield etc] 5 Forests / Horsham / Ticehurst etc.[book very mild tan end papers & foredge only , No inscsp. no annotaiion] Dust Jacket not price clipped, 12s 6d , bit weary from use , bit grubby to once white rear from ha... View more info
By: MARCUS WOODWARD
Price: £15.00
Publisher: LONDON, HEATH CRANTON: 1938
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 123883
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 ... View more info
By: PRIMROSE CUMMING
Price: £35.00
Publisher: LONDON, J.M.DENT: 1954
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 122596
Blue Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine,195 x 135 mm approx. vi + 216 pp.Colour frontis and numerous unspecified line text illustrations by Maurice Tulloch.First Edition 1st printing of this children's adventure book in which the Dare family leave their farm in the Wiltshire Downs to live in the Sussex Weald. After much persuasion the children are allowed to take their ponies Snipe and Lawrence to this deeply wooded, rather mysterious area with no stabling or supplie... View more info
By: RANDLE MANWARING
Price: £2.50
Publisher: HOVE, CALDRA HOUSE LIMITED: 1984
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 121060
Illustrated card covers (Paperback) 200 x 125 mm approx. 88pp 14 mono illustrations by Gerald Lip. Short guide to the Sussex Downs with author's reminiscences, tales of personalities past and present and poetry. Title from Rudyard Kipling " The Weald is good, the Downs are best- I'll give you the run of 'em East to West. Near Fine (Book- no apparent sign of use and no previous owner name or insc.). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale. View more info
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Tunbridge Wells, JAK Books: 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 118888
Laminate P/b FINE. 1st ed. 41 Sussex Female true stories; breeders / an Amazon / mountaineer / ghost / Saint / philanthropist / war correspondent etc. Teacher Known author on Sussex - born & always lived South Downs.[ no inscsp] £8.99 new. PLS See our image View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Ditchling , Sussex, Ditchling Society / Ditchling Museum: 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed Copy
Seller ID: 121020
FINE. Tall slim Ring-bound P/b in clear Publisher's Plastic protective cover. Research done by the Ditchling History Project.Architecture old Buildings from 14th c. to 19th c. and their usage and occupants ie: Eric Gill & Sopers.[ no inscsp, as new ] Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale. View more info
By: WINBOLT, S E
Price: £12.50
Publisher: LONDON, G BELL & SONS: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1686
Charcoal cloth with gilt lettering,252 pgs plus 2 pgs publishers adverts,2 old map prints of the western and the eastern parts of Sussex to feps,inked name to back of fep.Sussex by S E Winbolt,MA,author of the Roman Folkstone etc.with 64 illustrations from photographs by Edgar and Winifred Ward. For over a 1/4 century the author had been rambling over the country on foot,cycle,train and motor and seen for himself very nearly all places and things descibed in this book,he... View more info