richard jefferies samuel looker (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1957. First Published. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Minor foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Some minor tanning, creasing and scuffing overall.

Zustand: Good. 1944. 297 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

1st edn. 4to. Original silver gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (rather worn - in protective wrapper). Pp. 57, illus with coloured frontispiece b&w plates (p. 57 with tear at fore-edge; no inscriptions).

1st edn. 4to. Original silver gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (long closed tears on upper cover and some light wear at edges - in protective wrapper). Pp. 86, illus with coloured frntispiece and b&w plates (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Luckett Jefferies, Richard; Luckett Jefferies, John (illustrator). Hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is worn, marked and sunned, and edges are creased. Board spine ends are slightly bumped, and page block is blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear throughout. LW. Used.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Printed decorative wraps. pp 8. Sl creasing at corners, sl soiling; o/w vg. Issued on the unveiling of ' the Tablet of Indication and Remembrance upon the house in which Jefferies died.' Slight wear, otherwise very good.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. First edition of the botanical diaries and note-books of nature writer Richard Jefferies, complete with dust wrapper. First full transcription of Jefferies's field diaries, notable for his acute observations of nature, also found in his other essays, books of natural history, and novels. Diaries were kept from 1876 to 1887. Edited with an introduction and notes by Samuel J. Looker.Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. Two articles concerning Jefferies loosely inserted.Illustrated with plates of facsimile. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with some shelf wear, lightly chipped to extremities. internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge, not affecting leaves which remain bright and clean. Hinges have been reinforced. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Richard Jefferies; John Luckett Jefferies (illustrator). First edition. A wonderfully illustrated first edition of John Richard Jefferies" "Chronicles of the Hedges and Other Essays", in unclipped dust wrapper. A smart first edition, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A charming collection of essays from noted English nature writer and essayist, John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887). Jefferies was known for his depiction of rural life in essays, novels, and books of natural history. His writings cover a range of genres and topics such as Belvis (1882), a children"s book, "After London" (1885), a science fiction writing, and "Round About a Great Estate" (1880), an esteemed collection of essays. Beautifully illustrated with pencil drawings by Richard Jefferies and his uncle, John Luckett Jefferies. Containing a bibliography of Jefferies" work to the rear. In the original publisher"s cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Dust wrapper has some wear and chipping to the extremities. Some light marks to the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.