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The Essential Guide to Choosing and Using Your 4x4 Vehicle

By: N/A

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Land Rover: 2001

Seller ID: 014524

Condition: As New

Second edition. Illustrated, 12mo, pp 126, paperback, a very good copy, as new.
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Royal Commission on Common Land, 1955 - 1958

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office: 1958

Seller ID: 016578

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 284, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. SCARCE. [The commission made far-reaching recommendations for the future of commons in England and Wales. The commission was made up of erudite persons, charged to recommend what changes, if any, are desirable in the law relating to common land in order to promote the benefit of those holding manorial and common rights, the enjoyment of the public, or, where at present little or no use is made of such land, its use for some other desirable purpose. There were 12 members. It was chaired by barrister...
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Cottage By The Springs

By: Baker, John

Price: £3.50

Publisher: London, Phoenix House Ltd: 1961

Seller ID: 013402

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Small octavo, with illustrations by Kenneth Lindley, and a colour frontispiece by H.B. Brabazon, pp viii, 109, very clean internally, green cloth showing a very faint offset from the dustwrapper, in very good dustwrapper with a slightly age-toned spine. A very pleasing copy.
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Thoughts of a Clodhopper

By: Ballard, Ernest

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Colwall, near Malvern, Published by the author:

Seller ID: 005900

1948 ? Frontispiece, pp 156, a good copy in slightly frayed dustwrapper. (Christian essays on nature and philosophy from the Michaelmas daisy breeder.)
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A Book of the Country and the Garden

By: Batson, H.M.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1903

Seller ID: 013814

Condition: Good

With 72 illustrations by F. Carruthers Gould and A.C. Gould, large octavo, pp xii, 329, ( + 16 page publisher's catalogue), very slightly weak internally, top edge gilt, the other edges lightly uncut, lacks the front endpaper, slightly foxed and dust-marked internally, decorated cloth a bit dull and a little marked, rear joint starting to crack, but still sound, spine head slightly chipped. [Henrietta Mary Batson (1859 - 1943) was an English writer whose interest in the countryside and rural people was an important theme in her novels and much of her non-fiction. She often published as Mrs. S...
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The Hills is Lonely. The Sea for Breakfast. (Two volumes)

By: Beckwith, Lillian

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Hutchinson:

Seller ID: 016614

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes. The Hills is Lonely - Tenth impression 1962. Illustrated with line drawings, pp 207, a very good clean copy in dustwrapper. The Sea for Breakfast - First edition 1961. Illustrated with line drawings, pp 191, binding leaning very slightly, otherwise a very good clean copy in dustwrapper.
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Baskets in Europe

By: Bichard, Maurice

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Abingdon, Fyfield Wick Editions: 2008

Seller ID: 004695

ISBN: 0956024904

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Very well illustrated in colour throughout, quarto, pp viii, 272, paperback, a very good copy. [A highly researched and well documented work.] New copy.
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Folklore Guide to the Weather

By: Bowen, David

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Westward Ho !, The Western Press: 1953

Seller ID: 016598

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Small slender 12mo, pp 32, slight silverfish damage to the last page, otherwise clean and sound internallly, paperback, slighly worn and faded, a little stained. The scarce first edition. [Postage will be reduced]
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The Kent and Sussex Weald

By: Brandon, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Chichester, Phillimore & Co Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 016585

ISBN: 1860772421

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large octavo, pp xvi, 288, very clean internally, maroon cloth with only the faintest of marks, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and has only very slight signs of use and a very slightly faded spine. [The Wealds of Kent, Surrey and Sussex had detractors over almost all their history but are now regarded as embodying England at its most characteristically delightful. The author explores how places such as Ashdown Forest and wooded west Kent, which were long disliked and even feared, have come to be perceived as jewels of landscape for leisure and recreation. He also traces...
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A Fisherman's Angles

By: Chalmers, Patrick R.

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, Country Life: 1932

Seller ID: 016440

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Illustrated from drypoints by Norman Wilkinson, quarto, pp (4), 91, some occasional thumbing and soiling, the last few pages bruised and slightly damaged at the fore-edge, a few corners lightly turned, green cloth, corners bumped, rather rubbed and marked, the spine very dull and lettering almos obscured. A good working copy.
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Surrey (The Little Guides series)

By: Cox, J. Charles ( revised by E F Peeler]

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1952

Seller ID: 016607

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Seventh edition. Illustrated, small 12mo, pp xii, 160, errata slip tipped in at the contents page, a folding map at the rear, extremely clean internally, red cloth in very good condition. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is slightly age-toned and very slightly chipped. An attractive copy. [Postage will be reduced]
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Idlings in Arcadia (Richard Fitter's copy)

By: Cuming, E.D.

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1936

Seller ID: 005177

Cheap edition, 1936. Mid-blue cloth, a little faded, pp 326, uncut, a little foxing, in a dustwrapper which is price-clipped and a bit marked, rubbed and faded. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter).
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Horsepower (Dartington Rural Archive)

By: Dartington Rural Archive

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Barnstaple, Spindlewood: 1985

Seller ID: 013322

ISBN: 0907349218

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, slim octavo, pp 80, a very good copy.
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Old English Doorways - a series of historical examples from Tudor times to the end of the XVIII century

By: Davie, W. Galsworthy & Tanner, Henry

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1903

Seller ID: 016376

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with 70 collotype plates plus line drawings, large octavo, pp xii, 44, top edge gilt, other edges lightly uncut, endpapers slightly marked, a signature and date on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, red cloth, very slightly worn and faded.
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The New Forest - Its Traditions, Inhabitants and Customs

By: de Crespigny, Rose C. & Hutchinson, Horace

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1895

Seller ID: 014033

Condition: Good

First edition. Illustrated with nine plates from photographs, small octavo, pp viii, 293, a folding map at the rear, uncut, slight foxing to the endpapers, a contemporary inscription (1895) on the front endpaper, otherwise good and clean internally, green buckram a little rubbed, lower corners slightly bumped, the brown spine label is peeling slightly. [ A production fault has led to a dozen or so pages throughout the book having a vertical crease or fold.]. The scarce first edition.
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Hedgerows and Verges

By: DOWDESWELL, W.H.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Allen & Unwin: 1987

Seller ID: 006406

ISBN: 0045740402

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small octavo, pp xiv, 190, very slightly age-toned, paperback, very slight signs of use, otherwise a very good copy.
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Jan's Journal

By: Duncan, Ronald

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, William Campion: 1949

Seller ID: 014424

Condition: Good

Small octavo, pp 167, with four line drawings and a coloured frontispiece by Betty Swanwick, fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very slightly bowed.
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Dowsing - One Man's Way

By: Elliot, J. Scott

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Jersey, Neville Spearman: 1977

Seller ID: 014460

ISBN: 0859780252

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, pp 159, an ex-library copy with a label on the front endpaper and a stamp on the title page, but extremely clean, virtually as new; the dustwrapper is also very good, there is an inked price on the fold-over flap,and it is nicely protected in a removable plastic cover.
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Myxomatosis [Richard Fitter's copy]

By: Fenner, Frank & Ratcliffe, F.N.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1965

Seller ID: 013574

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xiv, 379, fore-edge very slightly marked, one folding table has been folded badly in the binding press and has a slight cut to it (no loss), otherwise extremely clean and bright internally, blue cloth in very good condition, in a price-clipped dustwrapper which is very slightly worn, and a little rubbed and marked on its lower cover. The very scarce first edition. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]. {The outbreaks of myxomatosis among rabbits in Australia in 1950 and in Europe in 1952 p...
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Clay Pipes

By: Fletcher, Edward

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Southampton, Southern Collectors Publications: 1977

Seller ID: 013321

ISBN: 0905438094

Condition: Good

Slim small octavo, illustrated, pp 27, paperback, an ex-library copy, a withdrawn label on the front endpaper, an adhesion mark a stamp and number on the title page, traces of label removal from rear endpaper, a shelf number and initial on the upper cover, the covers have been laminated, slightly worn but still quite a good copy. SCARCE [Postage will be reduced]
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