Talks with Shepherds by Johnson, Walter - 1925

George Routledge & Sons, 1925. Hardcover. Good. 1925. No Edition Remarks. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.

London: George Routledge, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. With jacket. 232 pp. Four b/w plates (including frontispiece). Pictorial title page. Shepherding lives from around England, recorded by the author from the 1870s to the 1910s, shortly before this traditional form of shepherding largely disappeared from the land. Book is very clean and sound. No inscriptions. The dustjacket, which carries a TLS review of the book to front panel, publisher's ads to rear panel, has had a few small tears neatly repaired to reverse and has slight tanning of the spine area, but is otherwise clean and sound. A lovely copy of a very scarce shepherding classic. VG+ / VG

George Routledge & Sons, 1925. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt to spine, light splash mark to the upper board, a tightly bound copy, faint foxing to the frontis, dated signature of a previous owner at the head of the front free endpaper, the body of the text is clean and unmarked, pictorial title page, b&w plates, 232pp.