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London: Faber & Faber Limited. Good/No DJ. 1943. Hard Cover. 12mo Green cloth boards, faded colour to spine but bright silver titling and decoration. Slightly bumped. No ownership inscription. 368 pages clean and tight. .

London: Faber and Faber, 1940. Hardcover without jacket. First thus, 1940. Spine is sunned; minor exterior shelfwear; page block and first two or three pages are foxed. Content is clear. The Faber Library, no. 44. TS. Hardcover. Good. Used.

Faber & Faber, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. Reprinted. 398 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Light wear marks overall. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Staining to spine. Wear marks overall.

Faber & Faber, 1940. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, small octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in an unclipped wrapper which has faded to the spine & is now protected in a non-adhesive clear film sleeve. Signature of a previous owner at the head of the front free endpaper, the text otherwise unmarked, 368pp.

London: Faber & Faber. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's green coloured cloth with gilt title lettering to the spine.In a Good Dust-Jacket with some water stain marks to the edge of sdpine and with a few small nicks and tears to the extremities of the wrapper.Not price clipped with No owner's names or inscriptions present.There is some spotting present to the endpapers and also the fore-edge of the book.Uncommon in True First Edition Status,8vo 368pp First Edition 1st Impression Size: 8vo - over 6 ¾" - 9¾" Tall . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1936.

Faber & Faber, 1949. Hardback. First edition, 1949. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good condition; Boards rubbed but clean, bumps to corners and spine, faint foxing to fore edges and FEP, pages clean and tightly bound with Fair condition unclipped dust jacket; edgeworn with some chips and small tears, sunned to spine. This is the first issue illustrated by Stone, whose highly evocative illustrations (and dustwrapper artwork) complement the narrative perfectly. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Published: London: Faber & Faber, 1949

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1936. 368pp, original green cloth. Illustrated green d.j., sunned and faded. Illustrated title-page. An anthology of English Country Life. No inscriptions, marks or clipping. Please email for photo.. 1st edition. hardback. V.g./V G sunned. 8vo.

London : Faber and Faber, 1949. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 398p., ill. ; 20cm. Subjects: Country life ; England.

London: Faber and Faber, 1936. Cloth. Good-only. FIRST EDITION, NANCY ASTOR's COPY. 8vo, pp. [1-4], 7-368 (as usual). Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine cocked, cloth splitting at upper joint, rubbed, large stain to front board. "Nancy Astor" in brown ink to ffep, some foxing, esp. endpapers. Else, clean and tight. Good-only A well-handled copy of the journalist-farmer's anthology, with Nancy Astor's name inscribed to ffep, but without a Cliveden Library shelf label. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964) was an American-born British politician and the first woman to sit in British parliament, serving as Unionist MP for Plymouth Sutton from 1919 t o 1945. From the year of publication – 1936 – onwards, Astor's reputation suffered "irretrievable damage" due to journalist Claud Cockburn's attacks on the 'Cliveden set' (ODNB). Adrian Bell's anthology, through which he "tried to catch some glint of the genius of the country in an oblique, perhaps the only way", opens with Thomas… Read More