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JENNINGS Paul
The Living Village. A Report of Rural Life in England and Wales, based on actual Village Scrapbooks. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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COPPER Bob
Songs and Southern Breezes. Country Folk and Country Ways. With Drawings by the Author. Foreword by John Arlott. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with plates, illustrations and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Stories, songs and poems collected by Bob Copper from the old timers in Sussex and Hampshire. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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STURT George
A Small Boy in the Sixties. With an Introduction by Arnold Bennett. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; navy cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. Classic account of mid-Victorian childhood near Farnham, Surrey, by the author of 'The Wheelwright's Shop' and other works.
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'BB', pseud.
Confessions of a Carp Fisher. Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and illustrations and diagrams in the text; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper. A remarkably bright, crisp copy of one of BB's most sought-after titles. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HILLABY John
Journey through Britain. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and full-page maps in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Hillaby's engaging and highly personal account of his tramping odyssey from John O'Groats to Lands End in 1966. A modern travel classic with significant additional value as a social study of Britain in the sixties.
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EVENS G. Bramwell
Out with Romany by Moor and Dale. Illustrations by Reg Gammon and Photographs by Eric J. Hosking and Romany. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly spotted dustwrapper. First published in 1944. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ALLSOP Kenneth
In the Country. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Essays collected from the author's highly sucessful 'Daily Mail' column 'In the Country'
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Evans George Ewart
The Pattern under the Plough. Aspects of the Folk-Life of East Anglia. Illustrated by David Gentleman. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; olive cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of tail of backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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STREET A. G.
Fish and Chips. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, title and fore-edge very faintly spotted; original black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly dust-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. With delightful dustwrapper back and front panel artwork designed and illustrated by Biro. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MOULTON J.L.
The Norwegian Campaign of 1940. A Study of Warfare in Three Dimensions. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; salmon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at tail of backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.300.
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KITCHEN Fred
Songs of Sherwood. Illustrated by Kenneth Beauchamp. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; orange cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Kitchen was born and bred in the Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire.
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WINDER George
Modern Rural Rides. An Account of a Ride through the Counties of Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Wiltshire with some reference to the Agricultural Act of 1947 and to other farming and historical Matters. Decorations by Douglas Hall. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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MOORE (ed.) John
The Boys' Country Book. With Drawings by Shirley Hughes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly spoitted; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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PABST Helmut
The Outermost Frontier. A German Soldier in the Russian Campaign. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1957. Enser, p.136 (recording the first edition).
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MASSINGHAM H. J.
The Curious Traveller. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 16, neat inscription on front free endpaper; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Dustwrapper artwork by Kenneth Lindley.
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JOBSON Allan
Household and Country Crafts. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 100 plates on 30; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Full details of many domestic and professional crafts, with valuable illustrations of tools, implements and other artefacts.
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STREET A. G.
Shameful Harvest. A Novel. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With dustwrapper artwork by E. Ladell.
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STREET A. G.
Kittle Cattle. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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DAY J. Wentworth
The New Yeoman of England. With a Foreword by the Duke of Grafton. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 22 plates on 14; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Weald of Youth. [Illustrated by Reynolds Stone]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and title-vignette by Reynolds Stone; blue cloth, gilt back, a very bright, clean copy. Second volume of Sassoon's famous factual autobiography. Keynes, A49; V&A Catalogue 124.
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STREET A. G
Feather-Bedding. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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STREET A. G.
Already Walks To-Morrow. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, top, free endpapers and half-title lightly spotted; brown cloth, backstrip lettered and blocked in gilt and green, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DERRICK Freda
Country Craftsmen. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dedicated to the Kelmscott Fellowship. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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COPPER Bob
Songs and Southern Breezes. Country Folk and Country Ways. With Drawings by the Author. Foreword by John Arlott. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with plates, illustrations and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Stories, songs and poems collected by Bob Copper from the old timers in Sussex and Hampshire. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MASSINGHAM H. J.
Where Man belongs. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN SECOND ISSUE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and several illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is the later 'landscape' version of the two wrapper designs issued with the first edition.
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LONG James
The Book of the Pig: its Selection, Breeding, Feeding and Management. Third Edition, revised. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece and plates; original dark red cloth, boards framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. With trade advertisements preceding half-title, and trade ticket of the Times Book Club on rear paste-down. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER MEDITERRANEAN ITALIAN CAMPAIGN. WWII.
Report by the Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Italian Campaign. [Part I]: 8 January 1944 to 10 May 1944; Part II: 10 May 1944 to 12 August 1944; Part III: 13 August 1944 to 12 December 1944; [Part IV]: 12 December 1944 to 2 May 1945. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN BUCKRAM
3 vols. in 1, 8vo., First Edition, with 2 large folding maps and 4 folding maps in pocket at end, neat stamp on title of third volume; attractively bound in dark red buckram, gilt back, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a near fine copy. THE OFFICIAL AND INDISPENSABLE COMMENTARY ON THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN. The first three parts (in two volumes) were prepared by Field-Marshal [then General] Henry Maitland Wilson who succeeded Eisenhower as SACM. The third and final volume, issued in 1951, was compiled by Viscount Alexander. Inexplicably, this series is not recorded by Enser. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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MOORE John
The Waters under the Earth. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; green tweed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Leigh Taylor.
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COLLIS John Stewart
The Worm Forgives the Plough. Book 1. While Following the Plough. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; grey boards, backstrip lettered in silver, patterned brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First edition with illustrations by Tunnicliffe, Stone, Anderson and Badmin among others.
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THOMAS Sir William Beach
The Way of a Countryman. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by A.E. Barlow. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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MOORE John
Portrait of Elmbury [with] Brensham Village [with] The Blue Field. [Uniform Edition]. THE BRENSHAM TRILOGY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., original red tweed cloth, backstrips blocked in black and lettered in silver, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly browned at backstrips. Dustwrapper artwork by Michael Harvey. The set comprises 'Portrait of Elmbury' (1966), 'Brensham Village' (1966) and 'The Blue Field' (1971). Bright, crisp set of one of the most elegaic and best-loved accounts of the English countryside of the twentieth century. Based loosely on Tewkesbury and Bredon (Gloucestershire and Wiltshire respectively), the three novels together paint an unforgettable image of a rural England long passed. Writing only twenty years or so after Hardy's death, Moore rekindles the spirit: 'the finest countryside writer of his generation' (Compton Mackenzie). COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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Campana, P. Michele
Il Tappeto Orientale
This is a very good hardcover copy with a clear mylar wrapper with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. The tan cloth covers a bit sunned across the top of the front board and the spine. Red title letters still bright. Text in Italian. Illustrated in black & white with drawings of motifs in the text + 95 black & white plates + 56 tipped-in color plates. The black & white plates show carpets, tapestries and paintings with carpets in them. The color plates are almost all carpets from private collections in Italy, mostly from Milan, some from Lugano, Varese, London, Paris and churches in Transylvania. 13" high X 10" wide, 219 text pages + plates. A beautiful production printed by Arti Grafiche Fratelli Magnani in Milan for Edizioni Libri Artistici in September 1962. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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NARDUCCI Enrico, MAES Costantino
Sui presunti obelischi dei circhi di Alessandro Severo e di Adriano e sul 'Mercurio errante' di Pietro Rossini da Pesaro. Note archeologiche-bibliografiche seguite da un'appendice sulla parte nascosta dell'obelisco solare del Campo Marzio di Costantino Maes
In 8, pp. 34. Br. ed. Nel saggio notizie sugli obelischi romani di via Giustiniani e del Campo Marzio ed elenco delle edizioni del 'Mercurio errante' di Pietro Rossini, nota guida di Roma la cui prima edizione risale al 1693.
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Nelle afflizioni della Chiesa e di Roma. Memorie compendiate dalla Ven. Arciconfraternita di S. Giuseppe de' Falegnami risguardanti il triduo celebrato al SS. Crocifisso in Campo Vaccino...
In 8, pp. 39 + (1) + (1b) con ill. n.t., tavv. sinottiche e una tav. all'antip. rip. in lit. raff. il Crocefisso. Lieve mancanza al p post. Br. ed. Racconto delle cerimonie e funzioni che ebbero luogo quando nel 1853 il Crocifisso in legno di Campo Vaccino fu trasferito nella Chiesa di S. Carlo al Corso e poi ricondotto in quella di San Giuseppe dei Falegnami.
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D'ACHIARDI Giovanni
Cenni su di una anfibolite orneblendica nel granito di S. Pietro al Campo (Elba)
In 8, pp. 8. Br. ed. (post. rifatta). Estr. da: Processi verbali della Societa' toscana di scienze naturali. Adunanza del 3 luglio 1904. Studio di una roccia anfibolitica posta su di un sentiero che da San Pietro al campo conduce alle cave di magnesite degli Alzi.
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REPOSSI Emilio
Azzurrite e malachite della miniera di campo Pisano (Iglesias). Memoria
In 4, pp. 19 + (3b). Br. ed. con rinforzo al dorso.
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BILLOWS E.
Sui cristalli di azzurrite della miniera di Campo Pisano presso Iglesias. Estratto dagli Atti della Accademia scientifica Veneto-Trentino-Istriana (volume XVIII-1927)
In 8, pp. 10 con tavv. sinott. n.t. Br. ed.
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Campagna pubblicitaria per il lancio del Tot
Album in cartoncino (cm 34 x 24 ca.) che raccoglie i vari materiali della campagna pubblicitaria del detersivo Tot montati sulle pagine che compongono l'album. Compaiono: la scatola del detersivo, indicazioni relative al lancio pubbliciatrio, l'elenco dei quotidiani e delle riviste su cui copariranno gli avvisi, alcune pubblicita', i buoni sconto, riproduzione del manifesto, dello striscione, la sagoma di una casalinga che regge la scatola di detersivo (materiale per la vetrina), ecc...
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Anonimo
Serenissimi Signori. Francesco Lupi del luogo di Campo fece legittimare in Pavia da un dottore di quel Collegio Stefano Domenico Lupi che disse d'aver avuto da una donna maritata...
In 4, pp. 12. Annotazioni manoscritte ai margg. bianchi di una carta bianca. Br. rifatta con carta d'epoca. Causa intentata da Stefano Domenico Curli dichiarato figlio di Francesco Lupi di Campo Ligure. A questo sarebbe quindi spettata l'eredita' paterna che gli viene pero' contestata da Gio. Battista Lupi fratello di Francesco.
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Anonimo
Lago di Como. Campo. Fotografia originale
Fotografia originale in b/n vintage, stampa alla gelatina ai sali d'argento, didascalia manoscritta al verso, misura cm 12,5 x 9,3 applicata su cartoncino bordato cm 23,5 x 17 ritrae una veduta dall'alto di Campo sul lago di Como. In primo piano una donna.
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AA.VV.
Occupazione di Palazzo Campana. Universita' di Torino. Novembre - Dicembre 1967. Contro l'autoritarismo accademico. Potere agli studenti. Controcorsi su Filosofia delle scienze - Scuola e societa' - Pedagogia del dissenso...
Bifolio di grande formato, cm 50 x 70, con illustrazione. Pieghe con qualche segno d'uso. Carta rivendicativa degli studenti in occasione della storica occupazione di questa sede universitaria torinese. Uscito come supplemento alla rivista Quindici (n. 7, 15 gennaio 1968), raccoglie le istanze promosse dagli studenti durante l'occupazione che, iniziata il 27 novembre 1967, scateno' nel giro di poco l'incendio che si sarebbe propagato nel resto degli atenei italiani, in anticipo, peraltro, sul maggio francese. Il diffusissimo testo prende in esame il sistema universitario, lo strapotere del corpo docente, non sottoposto ad alcun controllo, il lavoro svolto dalle commissioni studentesche e dai controcorsi
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Street, A. G. (advisory editor)
Country Fair Incorporating the Country Cottage March 1965
84 pages, illustrated, includes articles on Somerset country fare, cow psychology and the revival of falconry. eng
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Street, A. G. (advisory editor)
Country Fair Incorporating the Country Cottage April 1965
84 pages, illustrated, includes articles on the Buckinghamshire village Jordans and on haymaking. eng
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Baseley, Godfrey (ed.)
Country Fair Incorporating Courier July 1969
92 pages, illustrated, includes articles on Wales and Leonardo Da Vinci. eng
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Evergreen Winter 1985/86
132 pages, illustrated, includes articles by Ian Niall and John Vince. eng
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Sutton, H. T. & R. J. Sutton
Villages : a National Trust Booklet
Illustrated. eng
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Perkins, Benjamin
A Year in the Meadow
Illustrated by the author, inscription of a previous owner on the front endpaper, (Memories). eng
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Dunn, Euan (consultant)
The Ever Changing Woodlands
192 pages, illustrated, index, (The Living Countryside). eng
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Angel, Heather (consultant)
Havens of the Wild
192 pages, illustrated, index, (The Living Countryside). eng
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Gill, Crispin (ed.)
The Countryman Winter 1973/4
208 pages, illustrated, small crease to the front cover. Includes articles on preserving the British Coastline and on snow camping in Scotland. eng
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