About this title: This Victorian masterpiece is a sensitively written collection of press articles about the countryside in all its seasons, complete with tips on poaching fish and a lament on the industrialization of the land.
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Edition: Fine Paper Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Date Published: 1912
Description: Very Good-/No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Used In blue cloth with floral design in blind to cloth, 12mo, 224pp. (light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, vintage inscription to endpaper). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brockhampton Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781860194061ISBN:1860194060
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Date Published: 1912
Description: Good. Solid embossed binding in good condition, internally v. good with clean pages-a circular school library stamp to front and rear endpapers, otherwise pages v. good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lutterworth Press, London and Redhill
Date Published: 1947
Description: Agnes Miller Parker. Very Good- in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 292 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Corners and spine ends bumped. DJ spine sunned. Lightly soiled and stained. Illust. w/ woodcuts. Contents nice. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lutterworth Press, London
Date Published: 1947
Description: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. With an introduction and notes by Samuel J. Looker. Wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good (age tanning along the spine and edges, two short closed edge tears, small chip at the top of the rear panel) dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lutterworth Press, London
Date Published: 1947
Description: Agnes Miller Parker. Very Good jacket. Jefferies (1848-1887) English novelist and naturalist, solitary, bookish and eccentric supported himself and his family with articles on agriculture and later books on country life and characters that populated the English countryside in the later 1800's--unsentimental but poetic, Jeffries could describe the ways and habits of a pecking game bird and then ' snap its neck' in the next paragraph. Poor and painfully wasting away-but refusing aid--he died at ... read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lutterworth Press, London
Date Published: 1947
Description: NF/VG. 8VO. 292 pp. The first volume in Lutterworth's collector's edition of Jefferies and quite scarce. Book in fine bright condition with a spot on the frontis only noticeable from the verso. Unclipped jacket edgeworn with some losses at spine extremities. read more
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