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STURT George
The Wheelwright's Shop. [Second Impression.] CECIL DAY-LEWIS'S COPY PRESENTED TO HIM BY HIS FATHER
8vo., Second Impression, with a frontispiece, 7 plates and 24 illustrations in the text; original pictorial brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy. C DAY LEWIS'S COPY, PRESENTED TO HIM BY HIS FATHER IN APRIL 1934 AND WITH THE LATTER'S INITIALLED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Second appearance of Sturt's classic account (first published in 1923). Complete with extended glossary.
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YOUNG A.
The Farmer's Calendar. Containing the Business necessary to be performed on various kinds of Farms during every Month of the Year. The Eighth Edition, greatly enlarged and improved. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Eighth Edition, with 2 engraved plans (moderately foxed), endpapers mildly browned, some minor worming (mainly marginal and not materially affecting text) to last twenty or so leaves, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso facing title; contemporary full calf, back ruled in gilt, roan label lettered in gilt, covers moderately age-marked, a very good, remarkably clean, firm copy. With twenty appendices and full general index. The appendices include numerous conversion tables, recipes and directions, catalogue of farming implements with prices, suggestions for a farmer's library, tables of old and new names for agricultural chemicals and preparations, and similar matter. First published in 1771, Young's 'Farmer's Calendar' was an immediate success, swiftly establishing itself as a standard reference. Successively enlarged and improved, it grew in stature until being entirely rewritten by Chalmers for the twenty-first edition of 1862. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY. See Perkins, p.277.
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43RD (WESSEX) DIVISION
Service of Thanksgiving to God after the Campaign in North West Europe by the 43rd (Wessex) Division. 43RD (WESSEX) DIVISION. A RARE SURVIVAL
Sm. 4to., on laid paper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, upper wrapper with divisional crest in yellow and black, lower wrapper with small unobtrusive stain in one corner, a remarkably clean, bright copy. A key component of Second Army, the famous West Country Division captured Mount Picon, forced the crossing of the Seine, were the first British troops to fight in Germany, and turned the tide in the Reichswald enabling the Allies to close with the Rhine. As part of Horrocks' 30 Corps, the division also took part in the headlong rush to Nijmegen in GARDEN. Locally printed, probably on a commissioned press, this humble pamphlet is nevertheless a moving tribute to one of the most famous British fighting units of WWII. A RARE SURVIVAL AND CONSIDERABLY MORE ELUSIVE THAN ITS SECOND ARMY COUNTERPART.
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WILLIAMSON Henry
The Labouring Life. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and endpaper maps, front and rear preliminaries very lightly spotted; green cloth, upperboard and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy. This is the second of the author's two volumes depicting a year spent in the village of Georgeham ['Ham']. Gretton, 16; Matthews A16/1932(i).
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WIGHTMAN Ralph
My Homeward Road.
8vo., cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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WHITFIELD C.
A World of One's Own. Twenty-Four Essays. Woodcut Engravings by Geoffrey Miller.
4to., First Edition, with 12 full-page woodcuts and 7 engraved tail-pieces in the text, half-title and title (only) lightly foxed; cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt entirely legible) else a very good, clean copy. Essays set in and around pre-war Warwickshire and the North Cotswolds.
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WARREN C. Henry
Happy Countryman. [binding variant].
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; cloth, uncut, a near fine copy. Apparently a binding variant, with backstrip lettered in gilt (rather than blind), the backstrip title reading 'The Happy Countryman' and with fore-edges uncut. A scarce Warren title
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REYNOLDS W.F. R.
Angling Conclusions. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text, free endpapers faintly spotted; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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STREET A. G.
Holdfast. A Novel. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, neat numeral written on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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STREET A. G.
Moonraking. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 28 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, endpapers lightly foxed; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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DARLING Frank Fraser
The Seasons and the Fisherman. A Book for Children. Illustrated with Drawings by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and very numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial boards, oatmeal cloth back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy
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HORN Pamela
Joseph Arch (1826-1919). The Farm Workers' Leader.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first full-length biography
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GREEN Daniel
Great Cobbett. The Noblest Agitator.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MATTHEWS H.
The Forward Life of Richard Jefferies. A Chronological Study.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. No dustwrapper issued. Detailed life chronology of Jefferies recording very numerous inaccuracies discovered (principally) by Hugoe Matthews whilst compiling the definitive bibliography. A valuable study and indispensable to the Jefferies scholar.
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WILLIAMSON] [Henry
Country-Side Mood. [Sixth Impression].
8vo., Sixth Impression, with 26 plates on 16 and numerous wood-engravings by Joan Rickarby in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1943, this collection of seventeen essays by well-known countryside writers includes Williamson's 'A Devon Stream', Adrian Bell's 'Meeting a Man with a Horse-Rake' and Bensusan's 'A Country Lane'. Matthews 1943b (recording Williamson's contribution).
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ALCOCK I.
A Hill Farmer's Year. Hill Farmer's Year. [Illustrated by R. McPhail].
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustations throughout; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ALLSOP Kenneth
In the Country. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Essays collected from the author's highly sucessful 'Daily Mail' column 'In the Country'. Published a year after the first edition.
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ALLSOP Kenneth
Letters to his Daughter. Edited by Amanda Allsop.
8vo., cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ARCHER Fred
A Lad of Evesham Vale.
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at extremities. Edwardian village life in Worcestershire's Vale of Evesham
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ARCHER Fred
By Hook and by Crook. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with illustrations in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Victorian village life in Worcestershire's Vale of Evesham.
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ARCHER Fred
Golden Sheaves, Black Horses. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 26 plates on 16; blue tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Late-Victorian village life in Worcestershire's Vale of Evesham.
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ARCHER Fred
Muddy Boots and Sunday Suits. Memories of a Country Childhood. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 27 plates on 16 and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Edwardian village life in Worcestershire's Vale of Evesham.
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BAKER Denys Val
Echoes from the Cornish Cliffs.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BAKER Denys Val
The Tenant and other Stories.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BAKER Denys Val
The Timeless Land. The Creative Spirit in Cornwall.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BELL Adrian
The Black Donkey.
8vo., First Edition, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; unlettered pebble-grain cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled and age-marked, sunned at two points and frayed at extremities. This is not a rebound copy, so it may well be the publisher's remainder binding [?]. Scarce in any condition, especially in the dustwrapper.
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BELL Adrian
The Budding Morrow.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled on rear panel and with very minor loss at head of backstrip.
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BELL Adrian
The Budding Morrow.
8vo., First Edition, fore-edges spotted; cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded at head and tail else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter split at upper joint, wanting lowest inch of backstrip and moderately spotted on rear panel.
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BENSUSAN S.L.
Marshland Calling. Illustrations by Betty Aylmer.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. A scarce Bensusan title, especially in this condition.
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BENSUSAN S.L.
Right Forward Folk. Illustrated by Joan Rickarby.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, boards faded at top edges, backstrip pulled at head else a good, clean copy in fragmentary dustwrapper. More tales and sketches from the 'laureate' of the Essex marshlands.
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BLYTHE (ed.) Ronald
My Favourite Village Stories. Edited by Ronald Blythe with Line Decorations by Peter McClure.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BONHAM-CARTER Victor
The Survival of the English Countryside.
8vo., with plates; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Sold from the Richard Jefferies Society with its neat stamp on front paste-down
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COBBETT William
Rural Rides. An Abridgement with Biographical Introduction. [Illustrations by Thomas Bewick and John Nash]I.
8vo., First Edition thus, with title-vignette and numerous illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A valuable introduction to the writer-politician and his most famous work. The illustrations include five by John Nash and many by Bewick.
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CARR (ed.) Samuel
Country Verse.
8vo., with a frontispiece, and numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; pictorial cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-produced re-issue of a selection originally published as 'The Batsford Book of Country Verse'
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CLARKE Hockley
The Unfolding Year. [Second Edition]. With Drawings by Geoffrey Robinson.
8vo., with illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Plain spoken book of English country life, first published in 1947.
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COLLIS John Stewart
The Moving Waters. he Moving Waters, [Illustrations by Nicholas Egon].
8vo., First Edition, with full-page illustrations in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. Uncommon in this condition.
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DAY J. Wentworth
The New Yeomen of England. With a Foreword by the Duke of Grafton.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 22 plates on 14, endpapers mildly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and frayed at edges. Wentworth Day moves on from his famous 'Adventure' series to examine the twentieth century English yeoman.
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EVANS George Ewart
From Mouths of Men. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 14 and several illustrations in the text; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The culmination of Evans's studies in oral history, this sequel to 'The Days that we have seen' (1975) concentrates on 'mining' and 'the town'. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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EVANS George Ewart
Horse Power and Magic. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with 22 plates on 12 and illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. A modern rural classic. Lovely copy of one of the most difficult of Evans' titles. SIGNED COPIES OF ANY OF EVANS' WORKS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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EVANS George Ewart
The Days that we have seen. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. The master oral historian tackles men, trades, tools and customs. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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EVANS George Ewart
The Farm and the Village. With Drawings by R.C. Lambeth. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and numerous illustrations in the text; yellow cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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EVANS George Ewart
The Voices of the Children.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, neat signature on front paste-down; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. The author's second work and first novel. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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EVANS George Ewart
The Leaping Hare.
8vo., with 29 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed and creased at edges. First published by Faber in 1972, this is a comprehensive study of the hare both in its natural setting and in mythology. The original edition is scarce indeed; this reissue itself is rapidly becoming so.
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EVANS (ed.) George Ewart
Welsh Short Stories. [Revised Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Revised re-issue (with four new writers added) of a scarce work first published in 1937. One story by Dylan Thomas. This is the only edition edited by Evans. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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EVANS George Ewart
Let Dogs Delight and other Stories. [Illustrated by David Gentleman]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Collection of folk tales from Evans' native Wales.
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EVANS George Ewart
Spoken History. [Illustrations by David Gentleman].
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Conspectus of the work over thirty years of one of the pioneers of the collection of oral history
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EVANS George Ewart
The Crooked Scythe. An Anthology of Oral History. Illustrations by David Gentleman. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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EVANS George Ewart
The Strength of the Hills. An Autobiography. Illustrated by David Gentleman.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by David Gentleman. Evans reflects on his life and career from his Welsh childhood to his position as eminent rural historian (particularly of the folk traditions of East Anglia).
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EVANS George Ewart
Where Beards Wag All. The Relevance of the Oral Tradition. Illustrated by David Gentleman. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with plates, and very numerous illustrations by Gentleman in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published two years after the first edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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EVANS George Ewart
Where Beards Wag All. The Relevance of the Oral Tradition. Illustrated by David Gentleman. [Country Book Club edition].
8vo., with 31 plates on 16 and very numerous illustrations by Gentleman in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. First published (by Faber) in 1970.
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