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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. with about two hundred illustratiions (illustrator). Undated edition, early 20th century. School prize label inside the front cover. Firmly bound, pink cloth boards. Fading on the spine with a little wear at the top edge. No jacket.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Various (illustrator). First Edition. PB first edition. Signed by 2 authors. 22.8 x 15cm. 323 pages. b/w map on e/ps. b/w illusts, maps. Signed by Priscilla Flower-Smith and Malcolm Flower-Smith on title page in blue biro 'with love from two of the authors' dated 6th October 1997. Life in rural Devon centuries ago. How people lived, their furniture, furnishings, kitchen equipment, what they ate; their occupations as farmers, shopkeepers, millers, woolcombers, weavers; what they wore, finances, who owned land and the taxes paid. How they mustered in war, where they worshipped. Valuable resource for genealogists. Also, setp-by-step of woollen cloth production in Devon from early cottage industry to Coldharbour Mill. By a quirk of fate, Uffculme probate records were in Salisbury in 1942 when Exeter registry was bombed, so escaped the fate of most Devon records. Condition: Slight crease back cover top left corner. Otherwise appears unused, like new, VGC. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. 362 & 512pp.; 4to; cloth in pictorial jackets; illustrated with over 750 historical photographs between the two volumes. Fine s, with protective mylar wrap.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. The two Authors. (illustrator). Oh my.! The most beautiful production, triple author signed, 21 x 31 cm, all original HB in 3/4 blue grained leather, yellow ochre boards (Image 3), and then housed in deep navy blue slipcase. This copy Number 48 of 300. Signed on rear page in blue ink above limitation "Taylor McCall" (image 2). Then with an inked dedication to the top right of the Front Free Endpaper "To Owen. With Best Wishes from Mick and Sheena. Taylor McCall. 18.6.70. Taylor McCall" (Image 1). 104 pages, for edge and bottom edge uncut (untrimmed). Printed at Compton Press, Compton Chamberlayne, Salisbury. Wilts. Aphorisms, poetry fragments and sayings etc all beautifully illustrated. These gentle illustrations hand painted by both the Authors (Images 4 & 5). Just the most lovely copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of writings on the English countryside. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A charming collection of travel writings on the English countryside, from extracts of the authors' diaries, detailed in months and split into seasons: The Turn of the Year - covering January, February, and March. Spring - covering April, May, and June. Summer - covering July, August, and September. The Fall of the Year - covering October, November, and December. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. The odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good. book.

First edition. Royal octavo. pp xxii, 720. 4 colour plates, 77 monochrome plates on 48, 19 maps (6 double-page). Royal library binding of full dark blue morocco with raised bands, gilt rules, all edges gilt. Royal crest of George VI in gilt on front. Bound in at the front is a sheet printed with the words, ''From The Officers, Royal Army Service Corps to their Colonel-in-Chief''. The Colonel-in-Chief was Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.Fine.

First edition. Octavo. 28-page pamphlet concerned with the defeat of the Nazis and the ongoing war with Japan. Numerous illustrations from rather hazy photographs - a cheap production. Map on rear page. On the front page is the ownership inscription of Karen Else Seedorff who was the wife of Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen, a poet and lyricist who in 1950 published a book on Ceylon.Small namestamp on last page. Some rubbing and spotting. Good. Rare.