jefferies thomas edward (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Crown 8vo. xxxi, 312pp. Fine weave blue cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine, with a blind-stamped border to the upper board. Top edge gilt. Light bruising to the backstrip ends, and a small area of discolouration to the fore edge of the lower board. Free endpapers lightly browned. Elegant former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good copy. No dust wrapper called for. A twenty-three page introduction by Edward Thomas (in essence a summary of his noted Jefferies biography which appeared earlier the same year) precedes a collection of eighteen essays, fifteen from assorted journals, with three hitherto unpublished. Matthews & Miller B32.1.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this detailed work of nature writing from Richard Jeffries. First edition. A collection of essays on sport, nature and wildlife, with chapters including: choosing a gun, birds of spring, vignettes from nature, the idle earth, and the sun and the brook. Written by John Richard Jefferies, an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. With an introduction from Edward Thomas, a British writer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot and light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine in Fine Slipcase. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "100 copies are printed on hand-made paper, and 25 copies are printed on Hammer and Anvil hand-made paper, with an extra set of proofs of the engravings." Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue paper wraps, cream label, blue ink lettering, black ribbon binding; portfolio and slipcase in black paper, laid in loose plates. Small 4to. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 20 of 25 within full edition of 125.