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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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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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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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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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The Complete Guide to Knots and how to tie them

By: Gibson, Walter B.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Robinson Publishing Ltd: 1989

Seller ID: 011293

ISBN: 1854872915

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 131, (3) a little age-toned but otherwise clean and sound internally, paperback, the base of the spine very slightly bumped otherwise in very good condition.
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The Bobbed Wire Bible VII - an illustrated guide to identification and classification of barbed wire

By: Glover, Jack

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Sunset, Texas, Cow Puddle Press: 1986

Seller ID: 013208

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, small octavo, not pagonated (c.300 pp ?), very clean internally, paperback, covers a little foxed and rubbed. [Apparently signed on the dedication page - "Old Onery - Jack Glover" - I am uncertain whether this is an actual signature, or whether it is printed on the page, it is certainly in a slightly different ink colour.]
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Head to head - The Sketchbook of a Walk Across England

By: Grech, David (introduction by Hunter Davies)

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Kirkland, Frizington, Published by the author: 1999

Seller ID: 014484

ISBN: 0953601900

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small octavo, pp viii, 180, very clean internally, paperback, covers showing very slight signs of use, very slight creaseing, slight wear to the base of the spine. [With a sales slip loosely inserted, signed by the author.]
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The Oxford Country - its attractions and associations described by several authors

By: Gunther, R.T. (ed)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1912

Seller ID: 006919

Condition: Good

Illustrated, pp xvi, 319, slightly weak internally (a frequent fault with this book) green cloth very slightly worn, spine a little dull and slightly worn at head and foot. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter].
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The Great North Road, the old mail road to Scotland - York to Edinburgh

By: Harper, Charles G.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Cecil Palmer: 1922

Seller ID: 016401

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second edition, revised. Illustrated with line drawings and contemporary images, thick 12mo, pp (10), 255, (5), slightly worn and weak internally, some foxing (mainly of the preliminaries) decorated clothj, faded and very slightly worn. SCARCE.
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Life on a Lake District Smallholding, before and during the secondworld war

By: Hepper, F. Nigel

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Richmond, Published by the author: 2011

Seller ID: 008232

ISBN: 1471066258

Condition: New

Well illustrated, quarto, pp (4), ii, 226, paperback, a new copy. [The Kew botanist, Nigel Hepper, has written a lovely account of his childhood holidays during the 1930's at the family cottage in Cumberland, where the Lake District National Park now extends to the west coast. The seaside was immediately in front of the cottage and the high fells behind. But as war seemed imminent this became the family home for several years during the Second World War and they made a smallholding with an acre of vegetable garden. This book tells the history of the Bootle village area, the cottage and the a...
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London's Countryside

By: Holmes, Edric

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Robert Scott: 1927

Seller ID: 012980

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small octavo, pp 344, uncut, a very good copy. [On Western Roads, Towards Oxford, The Chiltern Country, St Albans and the North, Through Essex By-Ways, The Heart of Kent, To Tunbridge Wells, Croydon to The North Downs, The Pines to Farnham, The Thames to Windsor.]
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Ploughs Up To Date (Catalogue of Ploughs Manufactured by R. Hornsby & Sons Limited, Spittlegate Iron Works, Grantham, 1891).

By: Hornsby & Sons

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Lincoln, Lincolnshire County Council: 1984

Seller ID: 013316

Condition: Very Good

Facsimile reprint, large octavo, pp 66, paperback, a very good copy.
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